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raptorial

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Adjective
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rap=to=ri=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

raptoriala. 
     Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

raptorial, adj. & n.
--adj. (of a bird or animal) adapted for seizing prey; predatory.
--n.
1 = RAPTOR.
2 a predatory animal.

Etymology
L raptor: see RAPTOR

THESAURUS

raptorial

all-devouring, all-engulfing, bloodsucking, clawed, dentate, digital, digitate, digitated, extortionate, fanged, fingered, grabby, grasping, jawed, lupine, parasitic, predacious, predatory, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, taloned, toothed, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish

ROGET THESAURUS

raptorial

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.


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