Word Finder - prey

definition

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

synonyms

• booty
• plunder
• spoil

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

definition

A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.

example

The rabbit was eaten by the coyote, so the rabbit is the coyote's prey.

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The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

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The victim of a disease.

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To act as a predator.

The town had become a prey to anarchy.

Dean felt it might be better if she talked instead of letting the silence and the upcoming events prey on her mind.

She looked around, the prey she'd been stalking in the forest before dawn now lost.

He was a man of war and battle, but he had never been a man to prey on those unable to defend themselves.

At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble.

Instead of going through the drive through every day to eat, it's like hunting your prey down.

Deer are the mountain lion's natural prey.

All the song-birds and birds of prey of the temperate zone are plentiful.

Birds of prey are numerous.

Unusually dissatisfied at the idea of releasing a potentially fun prey into the wild, Xander remained a moment longer.

Many of our native species spend the day lurking beneath stones, and sally forth at night in pursuit of their prey, which consistsof small insects, earthworms and snails.

During the 18th century many works of art, which still remained in situ, fell a prey to foreign collectors.

With his choice of prey, he narrowed in on a gorgeous blonde who seemed out of place, one of the few not wearing fangs or dressed from head-to-foot in black.

He was, however, a prey to the most terrible pains of body and agony of mind.

On that occasion Jules Favre had recognized the September convention to be dead, and, while refusing explicitly to denounce it, had admitted that unless Italy went to Rome the city would become a prey to dangerous agitators.

It feeds on mackerel, pilchards and herrings and, following the shoals, is often caught by fishermen in the nets along with its prey.

Natural prey animals for cats are rodents, birds, insects, and sometimes amphibians.

Romagna had continued a prey to anarchy ever since 1831; the government organized armed bands called the Centurioni (descended from the earlier Sanfedisti), to terrorize the Liberals, while the secret societies continued their propaganda by deeds.

Wolves do not catch their prey by lying in ambush, or stealing up close and making a sudden spring, but by fairly running it down in open chase, which their speed and remarkable endurance enable them to do.

He bought wild lands, took stock in mining companies, desiccated egg companies, patent looms, photo-lithographic companies, gave away profusely, lent to plausible rascals, and was the ready prey of every new inventor who chanced to find him with money or with property that he could readily convert into money.

The Afghan is by breed and nature a bird of prey.

Vultures and other birds of prey are met with.

As for the underworld, I prey on depravity.

Nearly all spiders are venomous, as they must use their venom to paralyze their prey.

Included in their meal would be things like the stomach on the prey animal or even its dung.

Among birds of prey may be mentioned the eagle and various species of hawk, and among game-birds the partridge and pheasant.

The members of this group are always carnivorous or parasitic, and prey upon both vertebrates and invertebrates.

Their government, effective enough when dealing with natives, breaks down in all departments concerned with Europeans, and becomes the prey of designing traders.

But the Peckhams' careful observations and experiments show that, with the American wasps, the victims stored in the nests are quite as often dead as alive; that those which are only paralysed live for a varying number of days, some more, some less; that wasp larvae thrive just as well on dead victims, sometimes dried up, sometimes undergoing decomposition, as on living and paralysed prey; that the nerve-centres are not stung with the supposed uniformity; and that in some cases paralysis, in others death, follows when the victims are stung in parts far removed from any nerve-centre.

By constructing an entrenched camp at Ulm and concentrating all the available food within it, he expected to compel Napoleon to invest and besiege him, and he anticipated that in the devastated country his adversary would be compelled to separate and thus fall an easy prey to the Russians.

From the 10th to the 13th Napoleon lay at Duben, again a prey to the most extraordinary irresolution, but on that day he thought he saw his opportunity.

The scorpions use their large chelae for seizing prey and for fighting with one another.

When the prey comes into contact with the tentacles it is paralysed, and at the same time held firmly, by the barbed threads shot out from the stinging organs or nematocysts.

Game, birds of prey and fish are plentiful.

During the last thirty-two years of the century the house fell a prey to one of those bitter and unappeasable family feuds which are the ruin of great Indian families.

In the wild state they never defend themselves, and if approached from different points, according to the Indian fashion of hunting, get completely bewildered and fall an easy prey.

But his health was failing, his reputation was on the wane, his works did not sell, and he gradually sank a prey to illness and disappointment.

Birds of prey are few; the parrot and pigeon tribes are better represented.

Common among birds of prey are owls, hawks and kites, and there are many turkey buzzards.

While Death is cruel and merciless, and never lets go his prey once seized, Sleep is gentle and kindly, the bestower of rest and pleasant dreams, the soother of care and sorrow.

War having broken out in this year between the United States and Great Britain the islands were largely used as a base by American cruisers sent to prey on British merchant ships.

Their flat body enables them to squeeze into extremely narrow cracks and crevices, where they prey on small arthropods and worms.

The diets were dominated by pelagic and benthopelagic prey and relatively little use was made of the benthic biota.

When the body falls prey to sickness, the mind is never totally blameless.

Dogs and cats on the other hand have well developed canines reflecting their natural food in the wild - live prey.

They are ferocious carnivores equipped with huge jaws to capture prey.

Such frenzied attacks are typical behavior for many small carnivores faced with abundant ' prey ' .

Canines are fang teeth at the front of mouths which carnivores use to rip chunks of meat from their prey.

Slightly larger flagellates and small ciliates prompt the spines to bend and curl so as to entangle the prey more thoroughly.

The Hawk conservancy This award winning and internationally acclaimed conservancy for birds of prey is situated in the village.