prey 的 2 个定义
- an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- a person or thing that is the victim of an enemy, a swindler, a disease, etc.; gull.
- the action or habit of preying: a beast of prey.
- Archaic. booty or plunder.
- to seize and devour prey, as an animal does: Foxes prey on rabbits.
- to make raids or attacks for booty or plunder: The Vikings preyed on coastal settlements.
- to exert a harmful or destructive influence: His worries preyed upon his mind.
- to victimize another or others: loan sharks that prey upon the poor.
prey 近义词
target of attack
更多prey例句
- In this case, unlike the scenario of not being eaten, your hope is the bike thief will move on to easier prey.
- Many barges were stuck at sea and became easy prey for pirates.
- This is the longest known prey of a marine reptile from the dinosaur age, and may be the oldest direct evidence of a marine reptile eating an animal larger than a human, researchers report August 20 in iScience.
- Bigger dingoes can hunt bigger prey, notes Letnic, which could have unknown impacts on Australian ecosystems.
- The new cytosine-converting enzyme, however, was as lethal to mammalian cells as it was to bacterial prey.
- And they prey on those that society will be least likely to believe.
- As he relishes his triumph, a larger, grinning version of the man materializes in the background, eyeing his prey.
- When it comes to protecting birds of prey, Illinois state law can be an ass.
- Yes, Levine plays the role of a stalker and Prinsloo that of his “prey,” but she never comes across as a victim.
- The trucking roads make it easier for predators to wipe out prey.
- When a hungry lion is watching for prey, the sight of any animal will make him commence stalking it.
- He usually seizes his prey by the flank near the hind leg, or by the throat below the jaw.
- Now it seemed to crouch as though ready to spring, and I could hear the savage growling as of some beast of prey.
- They appeared and vanished about the corners of the Islands and promontories like birds swooping after prey.
- It was monstrous that this English damask rose should fall a prey to so detestable a person as the Comte de Lussigny.