Palabras en English para 'Greedy, rapacious.'
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- excessively greedy and grasping
- Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
- (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
adj
- Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
- Prone to overeat.
- (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
- (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.
- (often followed by ‘for’) ardently or excessively desirous
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
- wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume
verb
noun
noun
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
verb
noun
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
- domestic swine
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (informal) A quahog (clam).
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
verb
- take greedily; take more than one's share
- (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (Herefordshire) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
noun
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- a coarse obnoxious person
- domestic swine
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
- (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
- (Scotland) An earthenware pot or jar
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (slang) The victim of a pig butchering scam.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (specifically) An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
- (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
verb
- live like a pig, in squalor
- give birth to (piglets)
- eat greedily
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- (of swine) To give birth.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
noun
- One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
- Any of a number of eagle-like birds of prey of the subfamily Harpiinae, especially the species Harpia harpyja.
- (derogatory) A shrewish woman.
- (mythology) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
- The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
- large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
- any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
- a malicious woman with a fierce temper
adj
noun
noun
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
- A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
verb
noun
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
- domestic swine
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (informal) A quahog (clam).
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
verb
- take greedily; take more than one's share
- (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (Herefordshire) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
noun
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- a coarse obnoxious person
- domestic swine
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
- (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
- (Scotland) An earthenware pot or jar
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (slang) The victim of a pig butchering scam.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (specifically) An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
- (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
verb
- live like a pig, in squalor
- give birth to (piglets)
- eat greedily
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- (of swine) To give birth.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
noun
- One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
- Any of a number of eagle-like birds of prey of the subfamily Harpiinae, especially the species Harpia harpyja.
- (derogatory) A shrewish woman.
- (mythology) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
- The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
- large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
- any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
- a malicious woman with a fierce temper
noun
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
- A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
verb
verb
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- excessively greedy and grasping
- Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
- (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
adj
- Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
- Prone to overeat.
- (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
- (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.
- (often followed by ‘for’) ardently or excessively desirous
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
- wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume