1. (

• marauding ,
• predatory ,
• raiding

) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" ;

2. (

• predatory ,
• rapacious ,
• raptorial ,
• ravening ,
• vulturine ,
• vulturous

) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" ;

3. (

• predaceous ,
• predacious ,
• predatory

) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal;