Prey
noun
1.
an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
2.
a person or thing that is the victim of an enemy, a swindler, a disease, etc.; gull.
3.
the action or habit of preying:
a beast of prey.
4.
Archaic. booty or plunder.
verb (used without object)
5.
to seize and devour prey, as an animal does (usually followed by on or upon):
Foxes prey on rabbits.
6.
to make raids or attacks for booty or plunder:
The Vikings preyed on coastal settlements.
7.
to exert a harmful or destructive influence:
His worries preyed upon his mind.
8.
to victimize another or others (usually followed by on or upon):
loan sharks that prey upon the poor.
noun
1.
an animal hunted or captured by another for food
2.
a person or thing that becomes the victim of a hostile person, influence, etc
3.
beast of prey, an animal that preys on others for food
4.
bird of prey, a bird that preys on others for food
5.
an archaic word for booty1
verb (intransitive; often foll by on or upon)
6.
to hunt or seize food by killing other animals
7.
to make a victim (of others), as by profiting at their expense
8.
to exert a depressing or obsessive effect (on the mind, spirits, etc); weigh heavily (upon)
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