Crossword clues for preying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prey \Prey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Preyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Preying.] [OF. preier, preer, L. praedari, fr. praeda. See Prey, n.] To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence. More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. --Shak. To prey on or To prey upon.
To take prey from; to despoil; to pillage; to rob.
--Shak.To seize as prey; to take for food by violence; to seize and devour.
--Shak.To wear away gradually; to cause to waste or pine away; as, the trouble preyed upon his mind.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of prey English)
Usage examples of "preying".
When I found out she had a man with her I thought anxiously about the crooks preying on Sleepers that Bernstein had lectured me about and got busier than ever.
The community can't have these immigrant paupers roaming at large, and preying on law-abiding citizens.
You must certainly know that there are criminals who make a regular business of preying on the gullibility and lack of orientation of a newly awakened Sleeper.
Pew plants survived, but that hardly mattered to the dragons, who were carnivorous, preying on tender virgins.
The preying mantis looked clumsy, like a wooden branch propped on stilts but Zane had seen that creature move.
Suppose he died where he stood, and his ghost haunted the preying mantis?
Few plants survived, but that hardly mattered to the dragons, who were carnivorous, preying on tender virgins.
The all-powerful Fleet of would-be saviors from Central Worlds will watch helplessly from orbit while the pleas for help from below slowly fade away, as thousands starve and the so-moral Bethelites turn to preying upon each other to survive.
Strange when you considered that these people were parasites, preying on the isolated Cridi, that they wouldn't be more cautious about invasion of their own airspace.
He hadn't liked the idea of that ship loose and preying on an unsuspecting planet.
And maybe they intended to replace the magic they had lost by preying on ordinary Imardians.
The loss of freedom, the horror of being a vampire preying on human victims for sustenance as portrayed in old novels, the terror of ever needing a man the way her mother had—to survive.
It was growing in him every moment, weakening his body, preying on his strength.
Her belief in him enabled him to see how the vampire's trap was preying on his mind.
We vampyres can perform a useful service to society, you see, by preying on the predators.