Usually means: Organism hunted for food, survival.
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  1. prey: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prey, prey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prey: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prey, prey: Wordnik
  7. prey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prey: Wiktionary
  9. prey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prey: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prey, prey: Dictionary.com
  13. prey (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Prey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prey: Rhymezone
  19. prey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prey: Free Dictionary
  22. prey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prey: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. prey: Legal dictionary

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  1. prey: Encyclopedia

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  1. prey: Medical dictionary

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  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. prey: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PREY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prey: Evolution Glossary
  2. prey: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Prey, prey: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.
noun:  A person or thing given up as a victim.
noun:  A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
noun:  (archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war.
noun:  (archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
noun:  The victim of a disease.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a predator.

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