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1
having a huge appetite
- nothing livens things up like a whole team of rapacious basketball players descending upon the pizza parlor
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2
living by killing and eating other animals
- rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats
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- predaceous
- (or predacious),
- predatory,
- raptorial
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3
having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions
- rapacious plunderers who despoiled the tombs in the ancient pyramids
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- egocentric,
- egoistic
- (also egoistical),
- egotistic
- (or egotistical),
- self-centered,
- self-seeking
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The first known use of rapacious was in 1651
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