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rapacious

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9 lettersPronunciation /ɹəˈpeɪ.ʃəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aacioprsuStarts with REnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities

Word origin

Perhaps from rapacity + -ous, in any case ultimately from Latin rapāx (“grasping, greedy”).

Used in a sentence

  • To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
  • Big Tech companies, on the other hand, have proven themselves to be rapacious capitalists—they take as much as they can and ask for permission later.
  • The rapacious maw of our despair

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