predative

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Adjective

predative (comparative more predative, superlative most predative)

  1. Of, or resembling a predator.
    • 1914, D. H. Lawrence, The Wedding Ring:
      Her face was pale, yellowish, with a clear, transparent skin, she leaned forward rather, her features were strongly marked, handsome, with a tense, unseeing, predative look.

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