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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (archaic) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
- That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
- A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
- The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
- The victim of a disease.
Exempel
- And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest.
- Already sees herself the monster's prey.
- [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk [...]
- The old lion perisheth for lack of prey.
- Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
- The rabbit was eaten by the coyote, so the rabbit is the coyote's prey.
- Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, [...] lion in prey.
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