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Definition of Prey
Prey

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

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

The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

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Prey Quotations

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron

Without game, men prey on each other.
Perry Farrell

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries

Prey Translations

prey in French is proie
prey in German is Beute
prey in Italian is bottino
prey in Latin is praeda
prey in Swedish is rov, byte, be

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