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depredatory

depredatory adjective: tending or designed to depredate.

Adjective

depredatory (comparative more depredatory, superlative most depredatory)

  1. Tending or designed to depredate.
    • a depredatory incursion
  2. (nonstandard) predatory

Forms of depredatory

comparativemore depredatory
superlativemost depredatory

Questions about depredatory

What does depredatory mean?
Depredatory means tending or designed to depredate.
What part of speech is depredatory?
Depredatory is an adjective.

Words near depredatory in the dictionary

  1. depredating
  2. depredation
  3. depredations
  4. depredator
  5. depredators
  6. depredatory
  7. depreference
  8. depreferenced
  9. depreferences
  10. depreferencing
  11. deprehend

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