Synonym: fair game, feed, predate, quarry, raven, target. Similar words: press, spread, prewar, prefer, preach, Supreme, pretty, prepare. Meaning: [preɪ] n. 1. a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence 2. animal hunted or caught for food. v. 1. profit from in an exploitatory manner 2. prey on or hunt for.
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121 Meanwhile, the larger birds of prey were tucking into things like mice, rats, chicks and rabbits.
122 In the book, Godwin eloquently describes in words and photographs the ills our land is prey to.
123 Another favoured prey item is the giant squid, which can reach lengths of 12m.
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124 With Thabet's death, even the political leaders of Fatah have become potential prey.
125 Waiting for his prey to rise from the hollow and dash across open ground.
126 The carnivorous digestive system would be useless without the means of catching prey.
127 Then, with a watchful eye, it can keep a lookout for potential prey without revealing its presence.
128 Echoes of the signal alert them to possible prey, at ranges up to 80-90 metres in shallow waters.
129 I have heard that swallows follow their insect prey and these feel happiest at a barometric pressure of about 1010 millibars.
130 We were barely moving through the water, an easy prey.
131 The hawk stopped in mid-flight before diving down on its prey.
132 The larger falcons are among the birds of prey most favoured for the sport of falconry.
133 It was up in an instant and capering after its prey like an aquatic grasshopper.
134 The people back then had been so absurdly vulnerable, prey to disease and deception.
135 If the prey obligingly offers itself as an immobilised piece of meat, what advantage does it gain?
136 More rarely, I watched them diving in the sea for sea urchins or other easy prey.
137 It can't afford to expend too much energy on a prey it's not certain of catching.
138 Does your spider feed on the prey at once or does it wrap it in sticky threads and feed on it later?
139 It is most likely to occur when the bird of prey is behaving in an odd way.
140 You have to assume that Mobs will occasionally fall prey to animosity come what may.
141 The dams also render the animals easy prey for hunters and trap them when the water is drained for irrigation.
142 Lydia, cooped up like a hen in her house, had branded herself victim, prey, alien and afraid.
143 Ammophila, the caterpillar-hunting wasp, has to keep a close guard over her paralysed prey.
144 Does she welcome the intruder and discuss how best they can cohabit the territory, sharing prey?
145 Three groups are easy prey to the underclass's recruiting sergeant.
146 Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.
147 Consequently, the larger creatures that prey on them, the raptors, are fleeing starvation too.
148 Puppies will herd hens in a farmyard, just as a pack of wolves will encircle an ailing prey.
149 Their true jaws are of obvious advantage for grasping prey.
150 They crush their victim in their pincers, but feed by injecting digestive juices and sucking the prey dry.