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man-eating

[ man-ee-ting ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

man-eating

First recorded in 1600–10

In the course of her remarkable travels Thecla baptizes herself by diving into a pool of “man-eating seals.”

The marauding, man-eating Titans are mutated, androgynous beasts that have no need to feed but love to kill.

Our pond is short on man-eating sharks, but I can set bear traps on the bottom.

And if you can work in man-eating hippopotami, sexy vampires, or a robot that shoots lasers out of its eyes, all the better.

Her latest role is a small but powerful one, and does plenty to erase any memories of her cosmo-swilling, man-eating alter-ego.

He was a fat man—eating roast pork, and apple-sauce, and mashed potatoes, and bread.

There is a man eating his supper on the parapet below me, in front of the road.

The people wondered to see me approach from the jungle, dreaded as being the jungle of the man-eating tiger.

Who then will complain of a few regular man-eating sharks along the back-side?

A tigerskin with a man-eating head, over which I tripped, had not always been in the way before a cast-iron mantelpiece.

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