[
US
/ˈpɹeɪ/
]
[ UK /pɹˈeɪ/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈeɪ/ ]
NOUN
- animal hunted or caught for food
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a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
everyone was fair game
the target of a manhunt
he fell prey to muggers
VERB
-
prey on or hunt for
These mammals predate certain eggs -
profit from in an exploitatory manner
He feeds on her insecurity
How To Use prey In A Sentence
- More and more security experts are lining up against the use of static passwords for e-banking; in part because the technique makes consumers easy prey for phishers.
- The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
- Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
- He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
- And they keep prey species from overpopulating.
- The raptor swooped down on its prey
- And there is plenty of food here-both the trawls and acoustic surveys have revealed an abundant supply of myctophid lanternfish, the most common prey eaten by large Humboldt squid in these waters in other years. Scientific American
- A man who preyed on the elderly by burgling residential care homes in his own village faces a jail term.
- It looks like a preying mantis, has a huge hook to snare its prey and is coming to a rocky shoreline near you.
- The prey Chlorella first formed globose clusters of tens to hundreds of cells. Mutation, selection and complexity - The Panda's Thumb