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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, prey, stone pitprey, quarryverb
animal hunted or caught for food
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, 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, prey, 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?
I find it fascinating that we may owe the glow of fireflies to an ancient predator-prey arms race with the dinosaurs.
It's a welcome move, but as long as families are hungry and older men prey on young girls, the law alone will not protect our children.
They aren't getting their prey, and that's the problem.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
He said he and his client asked Cheah for their money back but wound up losing their entireinvestment. The Post quoted another pre-sentencing letter from Houston chef Alan Perez, who said Cheah left him $ 250,000 in debt. She does not use guns, knives, or any other sort of physical weapon like many criminals, language and emotion are her weapons, and armed with them she can easily infiltrate the mind of anyone she wishes to prey upon.
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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