vulture

Meanings

Noun

• Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
• A person who profits from the suffering of others.

Verb

• To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.

Adjective

• ravenous; rapacious

Origin

• Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.