prey

[prey]

Prey is an animal hunted for food. If you're a delicious looking deer during hunting season, watch your back! You're the prey for all those guys in orange jackets carrying rifles.

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To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

Noun
animal hunted or caught for food

Noun
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"

Verb
prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"

Verb
profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"


n.
Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

n.
That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.

n.
The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

n.
To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.


Prey

Prey , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Preyed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Preying.] [OF. preier, preer, L. praedari, fr. praeda. See Prey, n.] To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
To prey on ∨ upon. (a) To take prey from; to despoil; to pillage; to rob. Shak. (b) To seize as prey; to take for food by violence; to seize and devour. Shak. (c) To wear away gradually; to cause to waste or pine away; as, the trouble preyed upon his mind. Addison.

To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

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Usage Examples

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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Other Usage Examples

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

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