PREY


Meaning of PREY in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ easy

Teenagers are easy ~ for unscrupulous drug dealers.

▪ helpless ( esp. AmE ), unsuspecting

They watched a hawk swoop down on its unsuspecting ~.

VERB + PREY

▪ chase , circle , hunt for , look for , pursue , stalk

▪ spot

▪ capture , pounce on

a cat pouncing on its ~

▪ devour , kill

PREPOSITION

▪ ~ for

The young deer are ideal ~ for the leopard.

▪ ~ to ( figurative )

She was ~ to all kinds of conflicting emotions.

PHRASES

▪ a beast of ~ , a bird of ~

▪ be ~ to sth , fall ~ to sth ( both figurative )

The new government has fallen ~ to corruption and fraud.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .