Man-eater synonyms

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cannibal (related)
A person who eats human flesh
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savage (related)
(Pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
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anthropophagus
A person who eats human flesh; a cannibal.
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carnivore
An animal that feeds chiefly on the flesh of other animals. Carnivores include predators such as lions and alligators, and scavengers such as hyenas and vultures. In a food chain, carnivores are either secondary or tertiary consumers.
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carcharodon-carcharias
A taxonomic species within the genus Carcharodon — the great white shark.
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anthropophage
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great-white-shark
A large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of coastal surface waters in all major oceans that feeds on fish and marine mammals.
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vampire
A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) [from later 18th c.]
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white-shark
A huge, man-eating mackerel shark (Carcharodon carcharias) of tropical and warm seas
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man-eating-shark
large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
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Man-eater Sentence Examples

  • It not unfrequently attacks human beings in India, chiefly children and old women, but instances have been known of a leopard becoming a regular "man-eater."

  • Occasionally after having tasted human flesh, the jaguar becomes a confirmed man-eater.

  • The regular "man-eater" is generally an old tiger whose vigour is past, and whose teeth are worn and defective; it takes up its abode in the neighbourhood of a village, the population of which it finds an easier prey than wild animals.

  • The confirmed man-eater, which is generally an old beast, disabled from overtaking his usual prey, seems to accumulate his tale of victims in sheer cruelty rather than for food.

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