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Meaning prey meaning

What does prey mean?
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prey

A prey is an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food. The rabbit was eaten by the coyote, so the rabbit is the coyote's prey.

prey

If you are preying on something, you are acting like a predator.

prey

(= target, fair game) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence he fell prey to muggers everyone was fair game the target of a manhunt animal hunted or caught for food (= feed) profit from in an exploitatory manner He feeds on her insecurity (= predate) prey on or hunt for These mammals predate certain eggs

Synonyms prey synonyms

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Topics prey topics

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Conjugation prey conjugation

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prey · verb

Examples prey examples

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Simple sentences

The eagle dived at its prey.
The lion put an end to his prey with one stroke.
The old woman fell an easy prey to the fraud.
Patterns of freeze-up and breakup influence the distribution and number of seals, the polar bear's main prey.
Some large birds prey upon small birds and animals.
Hawks are birds of prey.
The octopus wrapped itself around its prey.
Eagles, falcons and hawks are birds of prey.
The eagle is a bird of prey.
The lion is stalking its prey.
The deer fell a prey to the lion.
Cornered prey is the most dangerous kind.
Many of the turtle eggs left on beaches make for easy prey.
The man is the hunter, and the woman is his prey.
The prey dies once, while the hunter dies every day.

Movie subtitles

Mephisto lurking for prey.
The cloak, spread out like an ink stain disappeared under the work of the supernatural being who grew paler as he absorbed his prey.
The innocent young person itself becomes a vampire and seeks to prey on its nearest and dearest.
At night, they leave their graves and roam abroad like wolves seeking their prey.
You know, when Tom Destry walked like that, he was stalking his prey.
All you the words you got. - Can I call the mayor a bird of prey?
All you can do is shoot and kill and prey on women. with your beastly senses slobbering at the sight of anything fine.
Your boat, Dan. waiting like a bird of prey for the Southern Cross. which you knew would strike. Didn't you?
Supply planes are clumsy, easy prey for your Spitfires.
I've been a prey to horrible calls.
The prey he deekd id a truth worth telling. a faith worth living by. domething worth dpilling hid gutd about.
If you all keep thinking like that, you'll all become prey for Godzilla!
She lieth in wait as for prey and increaseth the transgressors among men.
The world is grown so bad. that wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch.
Even a rat, for all its fury, falls prey to it.
Can I call the mayor a bird of prey?
He's the man you selected from among you to defy me, to prey upon me, to threaten my life.
Your boat, Dan. waiting like a bird of prey for the Southern Cross. which you knew would strike.
There they are, aside the condor the largest bird of prey in the world, the bearded vulture and the Himalaya vultures.
Birds of prey, aren't they?
Human beings are its chosen prey and its venom once injected into the blood stream causes such excruciating agony that the victim is driven to self-destruction.
Places! Our prey is here!
Today it seems their only purpose is to put you on the wrong track while smarter ones divide the prey.
What do you know about the old days?! If you all keep thinking like that, you'll all become prey for Godzilla!
You prophets and priests made the gods, that you may prey upon the fears of men.
Tore felt how the current got hold of him and used his last ounce of strength. to avoid falling prey to the enormous forces of nature.
Can I call the mayor a bird of prey? -Call him anything you like.
Prey to passing prowlers, poverty and policemen, - How poetic.
If I survive this it'll be to fall prey to angina, sclerosis or one of the other ills of age.
It doesn't know how to hunt its natural prey.
That other one, she's in her coffin. but she struggles to come out, to prey on us.
A malicious beast of prey.
More pity that the eagle should be mewed. while kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
You must keep in mind that the game we're hunting is no ordinary prey.
We can theorize that the others became the organism's prey.
Men who live by the Precepts easily fall prey to money.

News and current affairs

In healthy ecosystems, when prey numbers decline, predators become malnourished, and their numbers decline, too, giving their prey a chance to recover.
When our prey numbers decline, their economic value tends to increase, so fishing intensifies.
Such continuing political inertia leaves an increasingly young Arab population prey to the appeal of extremist ideologies, while driving the best and brightest to seek their fortune elsewhere.
But apathy about democracy is what makes so many ordinary Indians prey to poisonous appeals.
Often the first host is prey for the second, and so the parasites helps the predators catch their prey.
In these destitute areas, where most Iraqis live, people are prey to bitter temptations.
Iraqis will demand the dignity of government by Iraqis, while criminals and terrorists will prey on such sentiments by whatever means necessary.
But the vanity, greed, and perpetual scheming of the opposition's leaders has left them easy prey for Milosevic's schemes of divide-and-misrule.
When an entire government appears on the make and on the take, people are easy prey for any demagogue who promises to replace the real vices of a sick democracy with the imaginary virtues of a sound dictatorship.
But this also requires helping those people who out of desperation have fallen prey to extremist forces.
In the measure that scientists, absorbed in their research and fascinated by technology, forget this profound teaching of the humanities, they will continue to fall prey to Bias, their implacable nemesis.
In addition, literary intellectuals - who in the 1980s led the way in criticism - fell prey to Western postmodernist jargon, even though such things have little resonance in China.
But human predators are different. When our prey numbers decline, their economic value tends to increase, so fishing intensifies.
Sharing prey with pre-existing carnivores, they acquired tapeworms that originally inhabited only hyenas, large cats, and African hunting dogs.
We must be careful not to drive migration further underground or offer additional opportunities to the criminal gangs that prey on the desperation of migrants to make obscene profits.
It is good to have a business sector in which shareowners are not prey to self-dealing CEOs.
It does not help when some of those trapped in the poor ghettos surrounding major cities - however small a minority - become tempted by violence and fall prey to terrorist recruiters.
We must honour this order if we do not want to fall prey to the arrogant belief that discovering fragments of truth may enable us to master the universe.
The danger that the Czech people might, once again, fall prey to an aggressor who would attack us, certain that the democratic world would not lift a finger to intervene, is irrevocably receding into the past.
A giant crane strained to lift a 12-foot-high slab, yanking it back and forth like some dinosaur gnawing its prey.
The process must also include real disarmament to ensure that Afghans do not fall prey to a continuing cycle of violence, and that the Afghan state establishes genuine control of security.

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