man-eating

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man-eating

adjective maneating

not comparable Inclined to eat human flesh; that attacks and kills humans for food. [T]he den of a man-eating tiger, or a mad dog, could not be more dreaded.

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adj inclined to eat human flesh

Español	comehombre
Kiswahili	mla-watu
Deutsch	menschenfressend
Italiano	antropofago, cannibale
Ελληνικά	ανθρωποφάγος anthropofágos, ανθρωποβόρος anthropovóros

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@misc{man_eating_2026,
  title = {man-eating},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/man-eating},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}