Definitions for prey
prey

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. prey, quarry, target, fair gamenoun

   a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence

   "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt"

2. prey, quarryverb

   animal hunted or caught for food

3. prey, feedverb

   profit from in an exploitatory manner

   "He feeds on her insecurity"

4. raven, prey, predateverb

   prey on or hunt for

   "These mammals predate certain eggs"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. preynoun

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

2. preynoun

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

3. preynoun

   A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.

   The rabbit was eaten by the coyote, so the rabbit is the coyote's prey.

4. preyverb

   To victimize, hunt, attack or plunder.

5. preyverb

   To devour.

6. preyverb

   To exert harmful influence.

7. Etymology: from preie, one of the variants of proie, from praeda

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PREYnoun

   Etymology: præda, Lat.

   1. Something to be devoured; something to be seized; food gotten by violence; ravine; wealth gotten by violence; plunder.

   A garrison supported itself, by the prey it took from the neighbourhood of Aylesbury. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

   The whole included race his purpos’d prey. John Milton.

   She sees herself the monster’s prey,
   And feels her heart and intrails torn away. Dryden.

   Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies,
   While virtue leads the noble way;
   Too like a vulture Boileau flies,
   Where sordid int’rest shews the prey. Matthew Prior.

   2. Ravage; depredation.

   Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, lion in prey. William Shakespeare.

   3. Animal of prey, is an animal that lives on other animals.

   There are men of prey, as well as beasts and birds of prey, that live upon, and delight in blood. Roger L'Estrange.

2. To Preyverb

   Etymology: prædor, Lat.

   1. To feed by violence. With on before the object.

   A lioness
   Lay couching head on ground, with cat-like watch,
   When that the sleeping man should stir: for ’tis
   The royal disposition of that beast
   To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. William Shakespeare.

   Put your torches out;
   The wolves have prey’d, and look the gentle day
   Dapples the drowsy east. William Shakespeare.

   Jove venom first infus’d in serpents fell,
   Taught wolves to prey, and stormy seas to swell. May.

   Their impious folly dar’d to prey
   On herds devoted to the god of day. Alexander Pope.

   2. To plunder; to rob.

   They pray continually unto their saint the commonwealth, or rather not pray to her, but prey on her; for they ride up and down on her, and make her their boots. William Shakespeare.

   3. To corrode; to waste.

   Language is too faint to show
   His rage of love; it preys upon his life;
   He pines, he sickens, he despairs, he dies. Addison.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prey

   Prey is a first-person shooter video game developed by Human Head Studios, under contract for 3D Realms, and published by 2K Games, while the Xbox 360 version was ported by Venom Games. The game was initially released in North America and Europe on July 11, 2006. Prey uses a heavily modified version of id Tech 4 to use portals and variable gravity to create the environments the player explores. The game's story is focused on Cherokee Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi as he, his girlfriend, and grandfather are abducted aboard an alien spaceship known as The Sphere as it consumes material, both inanimate and living, from Earth in order to sustain itself. Tommy's Cherokee heritage allows him to let his spirit roam freely at times and come back to life after dying, which gives Tommy an edge in his battle against the Sphere. Prey had been in development in one form or another since 1995, and has had several major revisions. While the general approach to gameplay, including the use of portals, remained in the game, the story and setting changed several times. The game received generally positive reviews, with critics praising its graphics and gameplay but criticizing its multiplayer component for a lack of content. Prey was a commercial success, selling more than one million copies in the first two months of its release and leading to the abortive development of its sequel Prey 2. The rights to Prey passed on to Bethesda Softworks, who released an unrelated game of the same name, developed by Arkane Studios, in 2017.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prey

   Prey refers to an animal or organism that is hunted, captured, killed, and consumed by another animal or organism, known as a predator, for sustenance. It can include various species of animals, insects, or even plants, and is a key element in food chains or food webs.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Preynoun

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

2. Preynoun

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

3. Preynoun

   the act of devouring other creatures; ravage

4. Preynoun

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

5. Etymology: [OF. preier, preer, L. praedari, fr. praeda. See Prey, n.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Prey

   Prey is a first-person shooter video game developed by Human Head Studios, under contract for 3D Realms, and published by 2K Games, the Xbox 360 version was ported by Venom Games. The game was initially released in North America and Europe on 11 July 2006. Prey uses a heavily modified version of id Tech 4 to use portals and variable gravity to create the environments the player explores. The game's story is focused on Cherokee Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi as he, his girlfriend, and grandfather are abducted aboard an alien spaceship known as The Sphere as it consumes material, both inanimate and living, from Earth in order to sustain itself. Tommy's Cherokee past allows him to let his spirit roam freely at times, and gives Tommy an edge in his attempt to stop the Sphere. Prey had been in development in one form or another since 1995, and has had several major revisions. While the general approach to gameplay, including the use of portals, remained in the game, the story and setting changed several times. The game received generally positive reviews and was a commercial success, selling more than one million copies in the first two months of its release and leading to the development of a sequel, with rights owned by the Radar Group. The rights were recently transferred to Bethesda Softworks and Id Software parent company ZeniMax Media.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Prey

   prā, n. that which is taken by robbery or force: booty: plunder: that which is or may be seized to be devoured: a victim: depredation: (Shak.) the act of seizing.—v.i. to take plunder: to seize and devour: to waste or impair gradually: to weigh heavily (on or upon), as the mind.—adj. Prey′ful (Shak.), having a disposition to prey on others.—Beast of prey, one who devours other animals. [O. Fr. praie (Fr. proie)—L. præda, booty.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prey

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

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1. PREY

   What does PREY stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PREY acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PREY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Prey is ranked #45804 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Prey surname appeared 466 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Prey.
   
   94.2% or 439 total occurrences were White.
   2.3% or 11 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.2% or 6 total occurrences were Black.
   1.2% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Forage

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'prey' in Nouns Frequency: #2228

Anagrams for prey »

1. pyre

2. rype

How to pronounce prey?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say prey in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of prey in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of prey in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of prey in a Sentence

1. Anita Guy:

   I hate that this has happened and how Caleb Kennedy is being portrayed by people online, this video was taken after Caleb Kennedy had watched the movie ‘ The Strangers : Prey at Night ’ and they were imitating those characters. It had nothing to do with the Ku Klux Klan, but I know Ku Klux Klan's how Ku Klux Klan looks. Caleb Kennedy doesn't have a racist bone in Caleb Kennedy body. Caleb Kennedy loves everyone and has friends of all races.

2. Ghislaine Maxwell:

   Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein were a wealthy couple who used their privilege to prey on kids from struggling families.

3. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

   One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

4. Ken Catania:

   So it really is a remote control in a sense of the eels' neurons activating through the electric generating organs the neurons in the prey. And so they are remotely activating their preys' muscles and essentially taking over their peripheral nervous system.

5. John Gay:

   Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=prey
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Prey
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=prey
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prey
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=prey
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=prey
9. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html