rapacious

1. (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.Examples: "To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious."; "Relations between the Waveney Valley Railway and the E.C.R. [Eastern Counties Railway] soon became strained, because of the rapacious attitude adopted by the latter, and to the mismanagement which it displayed in working the smaller company's line."; "Big Tech companies, on the other hand, have proven themselves to be rapacious capitalists—they take as much as they can and ask for permission later."Synonyms: acquisitive, avaricious, cormorant, covetous, edacious, esurient, grasping, greedyalsofiguratively

2. (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.Examples: "Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for […] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place[…]"Synonyms: predacious, predatory