Origin: Latin suffix -ory
Predatory has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
"predatory capitalists"
"a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"
"a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"
Of, or relating to a predator.
"The predatory shark quickly surrounded its unsuspecting prey before striking."