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Predating
- verb - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
- come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
Predation
- noun - an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
- the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
Predators
- noun - any animal that lives by preying on other animals
- someone who attacks in search of booty
Predatory
- adjective - characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
- living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, 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
- 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"
Prefacing
- verb - furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
Prefatory
- adjective - serving as an introduction or preface
Prehallux
- - An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux.
Prelacies
- noun - prelates collectively
- the office or station of a prelate
Prelatess
- - A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate.