Synonyms for prey
prey

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1. prey

   Synonyms:
   spoil, booty, plunder, rapine, pillage, victim, seizure, loot

   Antonyms:
   earnings, hues, rights

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1. prey, quarry, target, fair gamenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   object, target, quarry, fair game, target area, pit, aim, butt, mark, objective, stone pit

2. prey, quarryverb

   animal hunted or caught for food

   Synonyms:
   quarry, pit, fair game, target, stone pit

3. prey, feedverb

   profit from in an exploitatory manner

   "He feeds on her insecurity"

   Synonyms:
   fertilise, run, give, eat, feed, raven, feed in, course, fertilize, feast, flow, predate

4. raven, prey, predateverb

   prey on or hunt for

   "These mammals predate certain eggs"

   Synonyms:
   guttle, pig, forego, antedate, feed, forgo, raven, antecede, foredate, precede, devour, predate

Matched Categories

1. • Forage

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1. preynoun

   Synonyms:
   plunder (to satisfy the appetite), spoil, BOOTY, pillage, rapine, ravin

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1. preynoun

   Synonyms:
   spoil, loot, plunder, booty, victim, quarry, captive, depredation, ravage, spoliation

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1. List of paraphrases for "prey":

   plagued, beset, grip, quarry, byte

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1. Rob Hueter:

   The sharks are just trying to find food, they’re not hunting for people and in that environment it’s hard for the sharks to tell the people from their prey.

2. Gordon Muir:

   Doctors prey on them for surgeries when they don't need it, it's a bit like having a size 8 shoe and wanting a size 11. You can't make the foot bigger ; it's a very complex set of bones. If you try to make [ the penis ] bigger, you stop it working most of the time. Most of them start off with a psychological problem, with an average or slightly small penis. They have surgery, end up $ 50,000 poorer with a deformed penis and a lot more psychological trouble.

3. John Griffin:

   Only half the groundhogs from any litter survive, and they disperse. They find other territories and they're on the move and they're a prey animal so it's rough out there for them. A lot of times, we get calls not because there's an actual conflict but because when someone sees a groundhog, they're like 'Oh, I've got a problem.'.

4. Jon Vaughn:

   You can not only celebrate parts of your history, you must deal with your entire history in order to root it out and change that culture, because the longer you ignore it, the more you perpetuate it and the more it empowers other predators, because they're watching the lack of discipline, or consequences for serial predators and rapists that then gives others the green light to make those decisions and prey on young men and young women.

5. Cecilia Malmström:

   The debate in the U.S. today personified by candidate Trump is one of strong criticism against globalization, against trade. The effects of the global crisis have hit many people really, really hard, many populists around the world prey on these feelings, on these fears.