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Definition of Preys

Prey
Prey Prey, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Preyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Preying.] [OF. preier, preer, L. praedari, fr. praeda. See Prey, n.] To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence. More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. --Shak. To prey on or upon. (a) To take prey from; to despoil; to pillage; to rob. --Shak. (b) To seize as prey; to take for food by violence; to seize and devour. --Shak. (c) To wear away gradually; to cause to waste or pine away; as, the trouble preyed upon his mind. --Addison.

Meaning of Preys from wikipedia

- in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism...
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- Look up prey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prey are organisms attacked and eaten by other organisms. Prey may also refer to: Prey, Eure, a commune...
- Alexander Germanovich Preis (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́рманович Прейс; 1905–1942) was a Soviet writer of numerous plays and libretti, including those for...
- Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as (although not the same as) raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other...
- The Lotka–Volterra equations, also known as the Lotka–Volterra predator–prey model, are a pair of first-order nonlinear differential equations, frequently...
- Preyer is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Carl Adolph Preyer (1863–1947), German-American pianist, composer, and teacher Gottfried...
- Look up bird of prey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bird of prey refers to several species of carnivorous birds. Bird of Prey may also refer to: Boeing...
- Prey is a 2022 American science fiction film in the Predator franchise. It serves as a prequel to previous films, being set in the Northern Great Plains...
- I Was Prey also known as Human Prey is a 2009 single-season series that aired on Animal Planet. The series features episodes where human beings end up...