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Another word for prey

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Noun

  1. One that is made to suffer injury, loss, or death

    See also:

    help

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Another word for prey

Noun
  1. See also:

    victim

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The town had become a prey to anarchy.

  • Dean felt it might be better if she talked instead of letting the silence and the upcoming events prey on her mind.

  • Birds of prey comprise several species of hawks and owls, and a few eagles.

  • At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble.

  • She looked around, the prey she'd been stalking in the forest before dawn now lost.

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