rapaciously
(ad.)強奪地;貪婪地
Ra·pa·cious a.
1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. “ The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar.”
2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
[Thy Lord] redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim --Milton.
Syn: -- Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious.
-- Ra*pa*cious*ly, adv. -- Ra*pa*cious*ness, n.
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rapaciously
adv : in a rapacious manner