All 15 Uses of
predatory
in
Life of Pi
- In a general way we mean how our species' excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey.†
Chpt 5-8 *
- Notice how they come in: mighty predators though they are, "kings of beasts", they crawl in with their tails low and they keep to the edges of the ring, which is always round so that they have nowhere to hide.†
Chpt 13-16
- That's what predators do: they kill prey.†
Chpt 41-44
- The sharks were makos—swift, pointysnouted predators with long, murderous teeth that protruded noticeably from their mouths.†
Chpt 45-48
- Such sentimen-talism may seem ridiculous considering what I had witnessed in the last days, but those were the deeds of others, of predatory animals.†
Chpt 61-64predatory = of animals: living by hunting and eating other animals
of people or organizations: given to victimizing others
- Perhaps it was because Richard Parker was not familiar with sharks, had never encountered a predatory fish— whatever the case, it happened: an accident, one of those few times when I was reminded that Richard Parker was not perfect, that despite his honed instincts he too could bumble.†
Chpt 77-80
- He confirmed what I had suspected, that these meerkats had gone for so many generations without predators that any notion of flight distance, of flight, of plain fear, had been genetically weeded out of them.†
Chpt 89-92
- At night, by some chemical process unknown to me but obviously inhibited by sunlight, the predatory algae turned highly acidic and the ponds became vats of acid that digested the fish.†
Chpt 89-92predatory = of animals: living by hunting and eating other animals
of people or organizations: given to victimizing others
- These people usually have a large, handsome predator in mind, a lion or a cheetah (the life of a gnu or of an aardvark is rarely exalted).†
Chpt 1-4
- We had our own case of the freak suspension of the predator-prey relationship.†
Chpt 29-32
- At times the zebra made noises about the predator just behind it, but mostly it lay in hopeless and sullen silence.†
Chpt 41-44
- And surely a hyena would smell of a predator to an orang-utan, a reason for being vigilant when a piece of durian has been dropped to the ground accidentally.†
Chpt 45-48
- The strained, temporary peace between Orange Juice and the hyena, and my reprieve, were no doubt due to the same reason: in the face of such a superior predator, all of us were prey, and normal ways of preying were affected.†
Chpt 49-52
- Injured, it would be easy prey for another predator, a gift I had not meant to make.†
Chpt 65-68
- Rarely will a tiger attack a fellow predator without warning.†
Chpt 69-72
Definitions:
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(1)
(predator) of animals: living by hunting and eating other animals
of people or organizations: exploiting or victimizing others -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, predator can refer to a type of military drone.