Hyphenation of predatory

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word predatory? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

preda-to-ry

Definitions of predatory:

1.	Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding Bands of marauding Indians Predatory warfare A raiding party
2.	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.	Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain Predatory capitalists A predatory
4.	Insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal- Peter S. Prescott A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster- W.E.Swinton

Synonyms of predatory:

adj	marauding, raiding, offensive
adj	rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, aggressive
adj	predaceous, predacious, acquisitive

Last hyphenations of this language

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