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, prey, stone pit

2. prey, quarryverb

   animal hunted or caught for food

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

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, prey, 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, prey, 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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How to use PREY in a sentence?

1. John Gay:

   Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

2. Martin Qvarnström:

   Although Silesaurus appears to have ingested numerous individuals of Triamyxa coprolithica, the beetle was likely too small to have been the only targeted prey, instead, Triamyxa likely shared its habitat with larger beetles, which are represented by disarticulated remains in the coprolites, and other prey, which never ended up in the coprolites in a recognizable shape. So it seems likely that Silesaurus was omnivorous, and that a part of its diet was comprised of insects.

3. Dani Bennett:

   Gangs like MS-13 prey on vulnerable members of our communities to recruit new members, sadly, unaccompanied alien children are particularly vulnerable to being recruited by gangs in the United States.

4. Erika Sanzi:

   Educator sexual abuse is a major problem that largely gets ignored because it's so uncomfortable to talk about, while a very small fraction of educators and school employees prey on the children in their care, one bad actor can do damage to many students.

5. 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.