The meaning of PREY is an animal taken by a predator as food. How to use prey in a sentence.

1. To hunt, catch, or eat as prey: Owls prey on mice. 2. To victimize or make a profit at someone else's expense: swindlers who prey upon the weak. 3. To plunder or pillage: Vikings preying …

Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night. If someone preys on other people, especially people who are unable to protect themselves, they take advantage of them …

Children are seen as easy prey for this type of advertising. The insurance company is in danger of changing from being predator to being prey. The once-successful property development …

prey /preɪ/ n., v., preyed, prey•ing. Ecology an animal hunted for food, esp. by a meat-eating animal: Mice are the prey of owls. the action or habit of preying: a beast of prey. to seize and …

Gangs are known to prey on tourists in the city. The thought that he could have done better preyed on his mind.

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