prey
/pɹeɪ/ verb C2- To act as a predator.
He/she/it preys · Past preyed · Past participle preyed · -ing form preying
Verb forms
- Base form
- prey
- He/she/it
- preys
- Past
- preyed
- Past participle
- preyed
- -ing form
- preying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And with this raillery Andrea went out, leaving the two girls a prey to their own feelings of shame, and to the comments of the crowd.
When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares.
AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare whom he sought to make his prey.
The Serpent, irritated at the escape of his prey, injected his poison into the drinking horn of the countryman.
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