preying

/prey/US // preɪ //UK // (preɪ) //

掠夺性的,掠夺性,掠夺,掠夺的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- : a person or thing that is the victim of an enemy, a swindler, a disease, etc.; gull.
- : the action or habit of preying: a beast of prey.
- : Archaic. booty or plunder.

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to seize and devour prey, as an animal does: Foxes prey on rabbits.
- : to make raids or attacks for booty or plunder: The Vikings preyed on coastal settlements.
- : to exert a harmful or destructive influence: His worries preyed upon his mind.
- : to victimize another or others: loan sharks that prey upon the poor.

adj.predatory

Synonyms

nounpredatoriness

Synonyms

A kukri snake saws into its prey using its teeth like a steak knife, he says.
When an insect lands to sip the nectar, the carnivorous sundew slowly curls its leaves around it, releasing digestive enzymes that liquify its unsuspecting prey into a digestible meal.
It could have helped them grow big enough to take on bigger prey.
Unlike most birds of prey, these couples don’t merely tolerate each other.
Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis may have lurked on the shallow seafloor, floating motionless until unsuspecting prey got too close, say researchers, who describe the new species October 28 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Meet the psychics preying on the elderly with a mail-order moneymaking gig that netted them millions a year.
Being a predator and preying on underage kids makes you a predator.
One familiar trope in the news cycle is the female high school and middle school teacher preying on a male student.
But young men have been “preying” on young women since the dawn of time.
Finally, there are criminal elements that seem to be preying on all sides of the conflict.
He may have meant no more than Emerson, who pictured ill health as a ghoul preying on the heart and life of its victims.
What to do for the best was the question preying upon both minds.
And in how many millions of homes was this same thing going on—this licensed of one personality upon another?

/prey/US // preɪ //UK // (preɪ) //

掠夺性的,掠夺性,掠夺,掠夺的

n.名词 noun

1
- : an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- : a person or thing that is the victim of an enemy, a swindler, a disease, etc.; gull.
- : the action or habit of preying: a beast of prey.
- : Archaic. booty or plunder.

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to seize and devour prey, as an animal does: Foxes prey on rabbits.
- : to make raids or attacks for booty or plunder: The Vikings preyed on coastal settlements.
- : to exert a harmful or destructive influence: His worries preyed upon his mind.
- : to victimize another or others: loan sharks that prey upon the poor.

adj.predatory

Synonyms

nounpredatoriness

Synonyms

A kukri snake saws into its prey using its teeth like a steak knife, he says.
When an insect lands to sip the nectar, the carnivorous sundew slowly curls its leaves around it, releasing digestive enzymes that liquify its unsuspecting prey into a digestible meal.
It could have helped them grow big enough to take on bigger prey.
Unlike most birds of prey, these couples don’t merely tolerate each other.
Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis may have lurked on the shallow seafloor, floating motionless until unsuspecting prey got too close, say researchers, who describe the new species October 28 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Meet the psychics preying on the elderly with a mail-order moneymaking gig that netted them millions a year.
Being a predator and preying on underage kids makes you a predator.
One familiar trope in the news cycle is the female high school and middle school teacher preying on a male student.
But young men have been “preying” on young women since the dawn of time.
Finally, there are criminal elements that seem to be preying on all sides of the conflict.
He may have meant no more than Emerson, who pictured ill health as a ghoul preying on the heart and life of its victims.
What to do for the best was the question preying upon both minds.
And in how many millions of homes was this same thing going on—this licensed of one personality upon another?