Synonyms of the word

vulture

• n. Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
• n. (figuratively, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.
• v. (figuratively, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.

aggressor

• n. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an…

assailant

• n. Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally; an attacker.
• n. (figuratively, by extension) A hostile critic or opponent.
• adj. Assailing; attacking.

assaulter

• n. One who commits assault.

attacker

• n. Someone who attacks.
• n. (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal,…

marauder

• n. Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
• n. A band of outlaws who raid and pillage.
• n. By extension anything which marauds.

piranha

• n. Any of the carnivorous freshwater fish living in South American rivers and belonging to the subfamily…

predator

• n. any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
• n. someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
• n. a sexual predator.

raptor

• n. A bird of prey.
• n. (obsolete) One who ravishes or plunders.
• n. (informal, paleontology) One of the dromaeosaurs, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs having tearing claws…