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What is the adjective for predating?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs predate, prey and prey on which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

predatory
  1. Of, or relating to a predator.
  2. Living by preying on other living animals.
  3. (figuratively) Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Scientists still aren't clear, for example, whether the birds hunted in packs like velociraptors or individually like large predatory cats.”
      “In addition to the judgment, a federal judge asked the company to stop its predatory business practices.”
      “This alarmed the peasant saltmakers because it indirectly associated them with Ding's predatory army.”
preyful
  1. (obsolete) Disposed to take prey.
  2. (obsolete) Rich in prey.
predal
  1. Of or relating to prey; plundering; predatory.
predacious
  1. Alternative spelling of predaceous
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “With no parental care the eggs are vulnerable to predators such as cray fish, predacious insects and small fish.”
      “The ground beetles, or Carabidae, are just one of the largely predacious insect families designed for the job.”
      “Thus, the predacious larvae do not increase in number as a result of resource dynamics.”
predaceous
  1. Surviving by preying on other animals.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There is growing concern that predaceous coccinellids introduced into North America may have negative impacts on native ladybird beetles.”
      “The predaceous invaders consume the fungus and, researchers suspect, feed the stolen larvae to their own broods.”
      “Thus, our results confirm theories predicting that isolated, rare, or predaceous species will be lost first from fragmented landscapes.”
predative
  1. Of, or resembling a predator.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Her face was pale, yellowish, with a clear, transparent skin, she leaned forward rather, her features were strongly marked, handsome, with a tense, unseeing, predative look.”
predatorial
  1. predatory
  2. Examples:
    1. “I would like the predatorial upcharges and gotcha fees and general disdain toward the customer removed.”
      “ViCLAS is a system that encourages and facilitates communication between investigators with the common goal of solving serious serial criminal acts and putting dangerous human predatorial offenders in jail.”
predated
predating
preyed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of prey
preying
  1. present participle of prey
  2. Examples:
    1. “The lion, with its sharp teeth and predatory instincts, is a preying creature that stalks the savannah in search of its next meal.”
preyed on
preying on
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