Vulture

Quick meaning: Vulture is a noun meaning Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.

Meaning

Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.
2. (figurative, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.
3. (obsolete) ravenous; rapacious

Example Sentences

Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.

Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.

Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie, That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie.

In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]

Word Forms

• vultures
• vulturing
• vultured

Synonyms for vulture

Depending on context, synonyms include vampire, marauder, predator.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include predator, marauder, buzzard, griffon, mob, opportunist.

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