Prey
[preɪ] or [pre]
Definition
(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.) profit from in an exploitatory manner; 'He feeds on her insecurity'.
Inputed by Alan--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Marvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Plunder (to satisfy the appetite), spoil, BOOTY, pillage, rapine, ravin.
Checked by Jessie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spoil, booty, plunder, rapine, pillage, victim, seizure, loot
ANT:Earnings, hues, rights
Typed by Amalia
Definition
n. that which is taken by robbery or force: booty: plunder: that which is or may be seized to be devoured: a victim: depredation: (Shak.) the act of seizing.—v.i. to take plunder: to seize and devour: to waste or impair gradually: to weigh heavily (on or upon) as the mind.—adj. Prey′ful (Shak.) having a disposition to prey on others.—Beast of prey one who devours other animals.
Checker: Steve
Examples
- We desire that, too; that he may not by any chance be made her prey again. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The tremendously complex nature of the chemical reactions which take place in the lead-acid storage battery also renders it an easy prey to many troublesome diseases. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That man is destined to be a prey to woman, as I am to go on 'Change every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Colonel Forster is a sensible man, and will keep her out of any real mischief; and she is luckily too poor to be an object of prey to anybody. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They live by the crook and the bow; half shepherds, half hunters, their flocks wander wild as their prey. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ere his return, his half-worried prey had escaped. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Tarzan eyed Robert Canler as Sabor eyes her prey. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- From time immemorial the black pirates of Barsoom have preyed upon the Holy Therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There were also a number of great flesh-eaters who preyed upon these herbivores. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix, and rendered him, when I first saw him, the most miserable of his family. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- She strayed out, pallid and preyed-upon like a ghost, like one attacked by the tomb-influences which dog us. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But she preyed upon our minds dreadfully. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This state of mind preyed upon my health, which had entirely recovered from the first shock it had sustained. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- With this occupation she gave up almost every other; and her mind preyed upon itself almost to madness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Take it, then, unasked, said Richard; the lion preys not on prostrate carcasses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Checker: Marsha