Definitions for vulture

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vulture vul·ture

Spelling: [vuhl-cher]

IPA: /ˈvʌl tʃər/

Vulture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in vulture (elrtuuv).

Definitions for vulture

noun

1. 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.
2. any of several superficially similar New World birds of the family Cathartidae, as the turkey vulture.
3. a person or thing that preys, especially greedily or unscrupulously:

Origin of vulture

1325-75; Middle English Latin vultur

Examples for vulture

James B., like a vulture, had been hoping for a place on the crew for many a day.

The vulture was drawing closer and closer to its prey—was almost upon it.

vulture, too, noticed her “effortless, self-deprecating charm.”

The difference only between the eagle and the vulture,—serenity or restlessness.

But you must remember his business was a vulture's business, and something of it was in his soul.

On Buzzfeed, vulture, Twitter, and in our hearts, these people are celebrated.

Say, rather, if you have the vulture's appetite, you must go where there is carrion!

vulture wrote a helpful-ish explainer about how to make sure you see it.

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.