Antonyms for preyprey

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. prey

   Antonyms:
   earnings, hues, rights

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

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1. • Forage

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.7 / 7 votes

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. preynoun

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

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:3.3 / 4 votes

1. shikari

   the prey was hunted by the hunter.

   Submitted by Basim.urtubia on October 21, 2020  

2. vulture

   Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019  

How to use prey in a sentence?

1. Bill Hartman:

   As the virus evolves and we get these different variant forms out there, it will prey on people who don't have a built-in antibody response like you can get with a vaccine, so these kids are the ones who will suffer the brunt of that, it's important to not only keep them safe, because even in this age group, it's a top 10 reason kids have died in the last two years. Kids aren't supposed to die.

2. Oliver Goldsmith:

   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.

3. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

   One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

4. Vic Santucci:

   Gobies are found in abundance among the rocks and boulders of our harbors and nearshore areas throughout much of the year. Foraging whitefish may be drawn to these nearshore areas when the temperature is right to feed on gobies or other prey, which increases their chances of encountering baited hooks of anglers fishing nearshore for perch, drum or other species.

5. Nick Dulvy:

   Most sharks are important predators and therefore can play key roles in keeping ecosystems functioning. Depletion of sharks is expected to have negative effects on populations of prey species, many of which may be also be sharks, or rays.

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