rapacious in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for rapacious in the English»Italian Dictionary

rapacious [Brit rəˈpeɪʃəs, Am rəˈpeɪʃəs] ADJ

1. rapacious bird:

rapacious

rapace

2. rapacious person:

rapacious

avido

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grifagno

rapacious

uccello rapace

bird of prey, rapacious bird, raptor

rapace persona

rapacious

rapacious in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for rapacious in the English»Italian Dictionary

rapacious [rə·ˈpeɪ·ʃəs] ADJ form

rapacious

rapace

rapacious appetite

vorace

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English

The mountain fauna was particularly rich in precious and rapacious birds.

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Compare also the adjective rapacious which retains the generic meaning of greedy and grasping.

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A literary odyssey to uncover the real truth behind a wealthy family's rapacious need for more.

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What they researchers found questions the image of pliosaurs as the rapacious big game hunters they're often portrayed as.

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And just like the subprime mortgage market, not all students were aggressively targeted by these rapacious lenders.

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Since his time, subsequent administrations practiced with fidelity and enthusiasm what he called subservience and colonial mentality, most of them with greed and rapacious intents.

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Zombies have symbolized fear of depersonalization, mindless consumerism and humanity's raging, rapacious nature.

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Most of his books, even the more strictly historical ones, include such sharp criticism of the priorities of alleged radicals who represented merely extreme formations of a rapacious capitalist ethos.

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We're the government, its worst face -- the rapacious creditor, the stern parent...

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With the abrupt end of colonialism half a century ago, the foreign white exploiters were replaced by a rapacious black elite.

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