• Maneating

    Origin

    en + man + eating

    Full definition of maneating

    Adjective

    maneating

    1. Alternative form of man-eating
      • 1907, Fur-fish-game, Volumes 5-6, page 129Well known maneating tigers were killed in several districts.
      • 1959, John Taylor, Maneaters and marauders, snippetA big maneating croc had appeared in the lagoon of Lifumba
      • 1998, Stephen P Fishelman, The Measure of Man, page 84They reflect what we are, maneating gods the gods of maneating men, beautiful Olympians the gods of the first humanists.

    Noun

    maneating

    (uncountable)
    1. The consumption of human flesh by animals
      • 1993, Arjan Singh, The legend of the maneater, page 83Corbett described maneating as the compulsive seeking of human flesh by carnivores
      • 2002, Hans Kruuk, Hunter and hunted: relationships between carnivores and people, page 75In general, maneating is only an infinitesimally small factor of mortality amongst people.

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