Exact Match:
- bloodsucking
- drawing blood from the body of another; "a plague of bloodsucking insects"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- lupine
collapse - any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers
- of or relating to or characteristic of wolves related words >
- raptorial
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- relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey" related words >
- predatory
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- 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" related words >
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- avaricious,
- bloodsucking,
- carnivorous,
- despoiling,
- extortionate,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- larcenous,
- looting,
- lupine,
- marauding,
- parasitic,
- pillaging,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- predacious,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravaging,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- robbing,
- sharkish,
- spoliatory,
- thieving,
- usurious,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish
- shakedown
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- extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the new industry's economic shakedown"
- intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system; "a shakedown cruise" related words >
- Cosa Nostra,
- Mafia,
- badger game,
- black market,
- blackmail,
- bloodsucking,
- bootlegging,
- extortion,
- gambling,
- gray market,
- illegal commerce,
- illegal operations,
- illegitimate business,
- illicit business,
- loan-sharking,
- moonshining,
- narcotics traffic,
- organized crime,
- prostitution,
- racket,
- shady dealings,
- shakedown,
- the rackets,
- the syndicate,
- traffic in women,
- usury,
- vampirism,
- white slavery
- a hog for,
- acquiring,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bloodsucking,
- bottomless,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- desirous,
- devouring,
- esurient,
- extortionate,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- hoggish,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- itchy,
- limitless,
- lupine,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- piggish,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- prehensile,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- swinish,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish
- predacious
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- hunting and killing other animals for food related words >
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- bloodsucking,
- cannibal,
- cannibalistic,
- carnivorous,
- commensal,
- dietetic,
- dining,
- eating,
- extortionate,
- feeding,
- flesh-eating,
- fruitarian,
- gastronomic,
- gluttonous,
- grabby,
- grain-eating,
- graminivorous,
- granivorous,
- grasping,
- grass-eating,
- herbivorous,
- insect-eating,
- insectivorous,
- lactovegetarian,
- looting,
- lupine,
- man-eating,
- marauding,
- meat-eating,
- mensal,
- nourishing,
- nutritious,
- omnivorous,
- omophagous,
- pantophagous,
- parasitic,
- phytivorous,
- phytophagous,
- pillaging,
- plant-eating,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- postprandial,
- prandial,
- predatory,
- preprandial,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravaging,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- spoliatory,
- vegetable-eating,
- vegetarian,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- arousing,
- bloodsucking,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- crying,
- cutthroat,
- demanding,
- draining,
- educible,
- eductive,
- elicitory,
- eradicative,
- evocative,
- exacting,
- exactive,
- excessive,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionary,
- extortive,
- extractive,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- gouging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- grossly overpriced,
- immoderate,
- importunate,
- inflationary,
- inordinate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- loud,
- lupine,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overpriced,
- parasitic,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- preposterous,
- pressing,
- prohibitive,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- skyrocketing,
- spiraling,
- taxing,
- unconscionable,
- undue,
- unreasonable,
- unwarranted,
- uprooting,
- urgent,
- usurious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish
- rapacious
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- excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" related words >
- Apician,
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bloodsucking,
- bolting,
- bottomless,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- cramming,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- devouring,
- edacious,
- esurient,
- extortionate,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- glutting,
- gluttonizing,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- gorging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- gulping,
- guttling,
- guzzling,
- hoggish,
- hyperphagic,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- intemperate,
- limitless,
- lupine,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- piggish,
- polyphagic,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- quenchless,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- stuffing,
- swinish,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- usurious,
- venal,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfing,
- wolfish
- extortion
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- the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)
- unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority); "the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty"
- an exorbitant charge related words >
- armed robbery,
- asportation,
- assault and robbery,
- badger game,
- banditry,
- bank robbery,
- blackmail,
- bloodsucking,
- call,
- call for,
- cattle lifting,
- cattle stealing,
- claim,
- contribution,
- demand,
- demand for,
- draft,
- drain,
- duty,
- exaction,
- exploitation,
- extortionate demand,
- heavy demand,
- heist,
- highway robbery,
- hijacking,
- holdup,
- imposition,
- impost,
- indent,
- insistent demand,
- levy,
- loan-sharking,
- mugging,
- nonnegotiable demand,
- notice,
- order,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- pocket picking,
- protection racket,
- purse snatching,
- rending,
- requirement,
- requisition,
- ripping,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- rush,
- rush order,
- shakedown,
- shylocking,
- stickup,
- stickup job,
- surcharge,
- tax,
- taxing,
- tearing,
- tribute,
- ultimatum,
- usury,
- vampirism,
- warning,
- wrench,
- wrenching,
- wrest,
- wresting,
- wring,
- wringing
- Apician,
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bloodsucking,
- bolting,
- bottomless,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- cramming,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- devouring,
- dog-hungry,
- edacious,
- empty,
- esurient,
- extortionate,
- famished,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- glutting,
- gluttonizing,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- gorging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- gulping,
- guttling,
- guzzling,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hoggish,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- hyperphagic,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- intemperate,
- limitless,
- lupine,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- peckish,
- piggish,
- pinched with hunger,
- polyphagic,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- sharkish,
- sharp-set,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- starved,
- starving,
- stuffing,
- swinish,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unfilled,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfing,
- wolfish
- Draconian,
- Tartarean,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- animal,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- beastly,
- bestial,
- bloodsucking,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- canine,
- cannibalistic,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- dog-hungry,
- doggy,
- empty,
- extortionate,
- famished,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- foxlike,
- foxy,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- grim,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hellish,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- lupine,
- murderous,
- parasitic,
- peckish,
- pinched with hunger,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- sharkish,
- sharp-set,
- slavering,
- starved,
- starving,
- subhuman,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- unfilled,
- unhuman,
- vicious,
- voracious,
- vulpine,
- vulturine,
- vulturous
- parasitic
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- of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence"
- relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection" related words >
- abject,
- accompanying,
- accordant,
- agreeing,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- associate,
- associated,
- at one with,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bloodsucking,
- bone-lazy,
- bootlicking,
- cadging,
- coacting,
- coactive,
- coadunate,
- coincident,
- collaborative,
- collective,
- collusive,
- combined,
- combining,
- commensal,
- concerted,
- concomitant,
- concordant,
- concurrent,
- concurring,
- conjoint,
- consilient,
- conspiratorial,
- cooperant,
- cooperative,
- coordinate,
- cowering,
- coworking,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- ecological,
- ecotopic,
- ergophobic,
- extortionate,
- faineant,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- good-for-nothing,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- harmonious,
- indolent,
- ingratiating,
- joint,
- kowtowing,
- laggard,
- lax,
- lazy,
- leechlike,
- lupine,
- mealymouthed,
- meeting,
- nonaggressive,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- procrastinative,
- prostrate,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- remiss,
- saprophytic,
- scrounging,
- sharkish,
- shiftless,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- sniveling,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- symbiotic,
- synchronous,
- synergetic,
- synergic,
- synergistic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unenterprising,
- united,
- uniting,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish,
- work-shy
- blackmail
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- extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
- obtain through threats
- exert pressure on someone through threats related words >
- account,
- allowance,
- ask,
- ask for,
- assessment,
- badger,
- badger game,
- bill,
- blood money,
- bloodsucking,
- boodle,
- booty,
- call,
- call for,
- challenge,
- claim,
- clamor for,
- coerce,
- compel,
- contribution,
- cry for,
- demand,
- demand for,
- draft,
- drain,
- duty,
- emolument,
- exact,
- exaction,
- extort,
- extortion,
- extortionate demand,
- fee,
- footing,
- force,
- force from,
- graft,
- haul,
- heavy demand,
- hot goods,
- hush money,
- impose,
- imposition,
- impost,
- indent,
- initiation fee,
- insistent demand,
- issue an ultimatum,
- levy,
- levy blackmail,
- loot,
- make,
- make a demand,
- mileage,
- nonnegotiable demand,
- notice,
- order,
- order up,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pickings,
- place an order,
- plunder,
- pork barrel,
- prize,
- protection racket,
- pry loose from,
- public till,
- public trough,
- put in requisition,
- ransom,
- reckoning,
- rend,
- rend from,
- require,
- requirement,
- requisition,
- retainer,
- retaining fee,
- rip,
- rip from,
- rush,
- rush order,
- scot,
- screw,
- shake down,
- shakedown,
- snatch from,
- spoil,
- spoils,
- spoils of office,
- squeeze,
- stealings,
- stipend,
- stolen goods,
- swag,
- take,
- tax,
- taxing,
- tear from,
- till,
- tribute,
- ultimatum,
- vampirism,
- warn,
- warning,
- wrench,
- wrench from,
- wrest,
- wring,
- wring from
- grasping
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- the act of gripping something firmly with the hands
- understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings" related words >
- a hog for,
- acquiring,
- acquisitive,
- acquisitiveness,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- ambitious for self,
- autistic,
- avarice,
- avaricious,
- avariciousness,
- avid,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- bloodsucking,
- bottomless,
- careerist,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- clinging,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- covetousness,
- crying,
- cupidity,
- demanding,
- desirous,
- devouring,
- draining,
- egotistical,
- esurient,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- frenzy of desire,
- fury of desire,
- gluttonous,
- gluttony,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- greediness,
- greedy,
- gripping,
- hoggish,
- hoggishness,
- holding,
- importunate,
- incontinence,
- individualistic,
- inordinate desire,
- insatiability,
- insatiable,
- insatiable desire,
- insatiate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intemperateness,
- itching palm,
- itchy,
- keeping,
- limitless,
- loud,
- lupine,
- lust,
- mean,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- narcissistic,
- niggardly,
- omnivorous,
- overgreediness,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- persistent,
- personalistic,
- pertinacious,
- piggish,
- piggishness,
- possessive,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- prehensile,
- pressing,
- privatistic,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- rapaciousness,
- rapacity,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- ravenousness,
- remote,
- retentive,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-advancing,
- self-besot,
- self-centered,
- self-considerative,
- self-contained,
- self-devoted,
- self-esteeming,
- self-indulgent,
- self-interested,
- self-jealous,
- self-occupied,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-sufficient,
- selfish,
- sharkish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- sordidness,
- stingy,
- swinish,
- swinishness,
- taxing,
- tenacious,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- urgent,
- venal,
- voracious,
- voraciousness,
- voracity,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish,
- wolfishness
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