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What does rapacious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Voracious; avaricious.
  2. Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
  3. (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
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He might be an evil, undead fiend whose rapacious bloodlust terrorised Europe for centuries.
From Seattle to Phnom Penh, protesters are fighting the incursion of supposedly rapacious multinational corporations.
Janofsky alludes to federally mandated spending and to rapacious tax cutting by the states.
Instead of spurning these rapacious advances, local authorities were demanding a permanent share of the profits.
Consumer passivity and inertia are the greatest allies of the rapacious banks and other financial institutions.
Many sympathised with Dayaks as an indigenous people dispossessed of their forests by rapacious New Order development.

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