Definitions for preys

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preys prey

Spelling: [prey]

IPA: /preɪ/

Preys is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in preys (eprsy).

Definitions for preys

noun

1. an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
2. a person or thing that is the victim of an enemy, a swindler, a disease, etc.; gull.
3. the action or habit of preying:
4. Archaic. booty or plunder.

verb (used without object)

1. to seize and devour prey, as an animal does (usually followed by on or upon):
2. to make raids or attacks for booty or plunder:
3. to exert a harmful or destructive influence:
4. to victimize another or others (usually followed by on or upon):

Origin of preys

1200-50; Middle English preye Old French Latin praeda booty, prey; akin to prehendere to grasp, seize (see prehension)

Examples for preys

Bill, of course, is in the latter stages of Hep V—an AIDS-like virus that preys on vampires.

Putin preys on the fact that the West thinks money and sport are neutral, or at least civilizing influences.

It is not improbable that the sting was made by a wasp (Stizus) which preys on the Cicada.

Resentment also preys upon the mind, and occasions the most obstinate disorders, which gradually waste the constitution.

One creature ruthlessly preys on the other, And man, the cleverest, preys on them all.

This one is ugly for sure, a resistant-to-almost-everything bacteria that preys on the hospitalized patient.

So you 'll positively not tell me what it is that preys on your mind this morning?

Then there was the accusation by Kyle that she “preys on the weak.”

These two men helped create the payday loan business that preys on the poorest Americans.

He preys only on the smallest quadrupeds, and with all his voracity he is an arrant poltroon.