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prey
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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 pitprey, quarryverb
animal hunted or caught for food
prey, feedverb
profit from in an exploitatory manner
"He feeds on her insecurity"
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fertilise, run, give, eat, feed, raven, feed in, course, fertilize, feast, flow, predateraven, 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
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preynoun
Synonyms:
spoil, loot, plunder, booty, victim, quarry, captive, depredation, ravage, spoliation
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#428 | course | |
#555 | give | |
#672 | run | |
#834 | mark | |
#1150 | object | |
#1293 | feed | |
#1584 | target | |
#1767 | flow | |
#2728 | eat | |
#2751 | aim | |
#3381 | objective | |
#4580 | butt | |
#4750 | booty | |
#5466 | victim | |
#5957 | byte | |
#6977 | pit | |
#7245 | grip | |
#7993 | pig | |
#10564 | raven | |
#11317 | feast | |
#12727 | prey | |
#15914 | seizure | |
#17743 | quarry | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#25353 | loot | |
#26420 | plagued | |
#33043 | precede | |
#37254 | plunder | |
#43092 | devour | |
#46693 | beset | |
#49362 | forgo | |
#49931 | forego | |
#60754 | pillage | |
#69430 | fertilize | |
#94947 | predate | |
#217859 | fertilise | |
#220972 | rapine | |
#281138 | antedate |
How to use prey in a sentence?
They come to prey off the spring breakers.
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.
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
I find it fascinating that we may owe the glow of fireflies to an ancient predator-prey arms race with the dinosaurs.
Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Translations for prey
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- فريسةArabic
- presaCatalan, Valencian
- kořistCzech
- BeuteGerman
- λεία, βοράGreek
- predoEsperanto
- presa, botínSpanish
- saalisFinnish
- butin, proieFrench
- creachScottish Gaelic
- bráðIcelandic
- predaItalian
- טHebrew
- pārurenga, oriMāori
- prooiDutch
- ofiaraPolish
- presa, preiaPortuguese
- pradăRomanian
- еда, трофеи, добыча, жертваRussian
- plen, plijȇnSerbo-Croatian
- preAlbanian
- windoSwahili
- เหยื่อThai
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