Both Uses of
predatory
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- We're laughing when Mrs. Nightwing enters, suspicious and predatory.†
Chpt 29predatory = of animals: living by hunting and eating other animals
of people or organizations: given to victimizing others
- The woods echo with it, the howl of a mother animal mourning its young, a tiny creature lost to a predator in the great cycle of things.†
Chpt 19 *
Definitions:
-
(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.