prey on 的定义
- 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
attack, terrorize
更多prey on例句
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
- It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
- Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
- I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
- 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.