prey on

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prey on 的定义

  1. Plunder or pillage; also, make a profit at someone else's expense, victimize. For example, Vikings preyed on the coastal towns of England, or The rich have been preying on the poor for centuries. [Late 1500s]

prey on 近义词

v. 动词 verb

attack, terrorize

更多prey on例句

  1. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  2. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  3. You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
  4. It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
  5. Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
  6. I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
  7. When a hungry lion is watching for prey, the sight of any animal will make him commence stalking it.
  8. He usually seizes his prey by the flank near the hind leg, or by the throat below the jaw.
  9. Now it seemed to crouch as though ready to spring, and I could hear the savage growling as of some beast of prey.
  10. They appeared and vanished about the corners of the Islands and promontories like birds swooping after prey.