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vulture
[ vuhl-cher ]
noun
- any of several large, primarily carrion-eating Old World birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, often having a naked head and less powerful feet than those of the related hawks and eagles.
- any of several superficially similar New World birds of the family Cathartidae, as the turkey vulture.
- a person or thing that preys, especially greedily or unscrupulously:
That vulture would sell out his best friend.
vulture
/ ˈvʌltʃə /
noun
- See griffon, lammergeierany of various very large diurnal birds of prey of the genera Neophron, Gyps, Gypaetus, etc, of Africa, Asia, and warm parts of Europe, typically having broad wings and soaring flight and feeding on carrion: family Accipitridae (hawks) See also griffon 1 lammergeier
- See turkey buzzard, condorany similar bird of the family Cathartidae of North, Central, and South America See also condor turkey buzzard
- a person or thing that preys greedily and ruthlessly on others, esp the helpless
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Derived Forms
- ˈvulture-ˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- vulture·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vulture1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vulture1
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Example Sentences
Vulture wrote a helpful-ish explainer about how to make sure you see it.
On Buzzfeed, Vulture, Twitter, and in our hearts, these people are celebrated.
Vulture, too, noticed her “effortless, self-deprecating charm.”
Specifically, it happened on October 15, when the series aired its fifth episode, “The Vulture.”
Vulture Shia LaBeouf responds to Jim Carrey's Golden Globes attack.
Ask the disappointed vulture and the mouth of the muttering earth to tell you, gentlemen passengers!
This, with contemptuous indignation, we fling back into their face, as a scorpion to a vulture.
As the Vulture was of too large a draught to proceed higher, the troops were placed on board the steamers Pluto and Corsair.
Yellow Vulture has seen the taunts calling the red warriors "women with the hearts of deer."
Very few birds probably ascend to a height of two thousand feet in the air, the vulture tribe excepted.
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