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An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh. / A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.

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man-eater

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Source Word

man-eater

Noun

broadly slang

An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh. / A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.

Japanese Meaning

人を襲い食べる動物、例えば虎やサメのようなもの。 / 人間を食べる、いわゆる食人動物。または、人間同士で食べる場合の食人者。

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The villagers whispered about a shadowy man-eater prowling the riverbanks at night.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

村人たちは、夜に川辺をうろつく影のような人食いの動物についてささやき合った。

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Sense（1）

And particularly, he knows where to find the primitive substance of the man eater: howsoever evaporate or reduced, as it were, into air or vapour, by sweat or perspiration.

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Sense（2）

A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.

For how a race of Man-eaters should spring up in these islands, when none of the nations on the continents from whence they must derive their original are charged with these savage customs, is not easy to conceive[.]

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