Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An animal hunted or caught by another for food.
- noun The collection of animals typically hunted and eaten by a predator.
- noun An object or victim of attack.
- noun One that is subjected to or afflicted with something.
- noun One that is deceived or taken advantage of by another.
- noun The act or practice of preying.
- noun Plunder; booty.
- intransitive verb To hunt, catch, or eat as prey.
- intransitive verb To victimize or make a profit at someone else's expense.
- intransitive verb To plunder or pillage.
- intransitive verb To exert a baneful or injurious effect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
pray . - To take booty; commit robbery or pillage; seize spoils: generally with on or upon.
- To seize and devour an animal as prey: generally followed by on or upon.
- To exert wasting or destroying power or influence ; bring injury, decay, or destruction: generally followed by on or upon.
- To ravage; pillage; make prey of.
- noun Goods taken by robbery or pillage; spoil; booty; plunder.
- noun That which is seized by any carnivorous animal to be devoured; quarry, as of a raptorial bird.
- noun Hence That which is given into the power of another or others; a victim.
- noun The act of preying or seizing upon anything.
- noun The act of seizing in order to devour; seizure, as by a carnivorous animal of its victim.
- noun Synonyms Booty, etc. (see
pillage ). - noun Ravin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
- noun That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
- noun The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
- noun a carnivorous animal; one that feeds on the flesh of other animals.
- intransitive verb To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
- intransitive verb To wear away gradually; to cause to waste or pine away.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
- noun That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
- noun A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
- verb with on To
victimize ,hunt ,attack orplunder . - verb with on To
devour . - verb with on To
exert harmful influence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun animal hunted or caught for food
- noun a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- verb profit from in an exploitatory manner
- verb prey on or hunt for
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Your prey is at it's highest population in recorded history.
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At least the prey is dead - got to be better than being partially eaten alive by, say, a wolf.
Snake-Bit! 2009
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I said the exact same thing as you that the only thing that seperates us from prey is our ability to use our brains, and build technology like weapons to put us on top.
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I said the exact same thing as you that the only thing that seperates us from prey is our ability to use our brains, and build technology like weapons to put us on top.
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They came in twos and threes, creeping silently through the forest, with their flying arrows able to annihilate distance and bring down prey from the top of the loftiest tree without themselves climbing into it.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Newt and Sarah Palin prey on the feeble minded and this is what we get.
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That means that prey is often chosen by how easy it is to catch.
They just said on tv that a black lab saved 2 people from a mountain lion attack in California. 2009
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I said the exact same thing as you that the only thing that seperates us from prey is our ability to use our brains, and build technology like weapons to put us on top.
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That means that prey is often chosen by how easy it is to catch.
They just said on tv that a black lab saved 2 people from a mountain lion attack in California. 2009
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At least the prey is dead - got to be better than being partially eaten alive by, say, a wolf.
Snake-Bit! 2009
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