"prey on" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "preys on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preying on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preyed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preyed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "prey on (third-person singular simple present preys on, present participle preying on, simple past and past participle preyed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Owls prey on small mammals, such as mice.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat (as prey)."
      ],
      "id": "en-prey_on-en-verb-E2z4iz1y",
      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "prey",
          "prey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To eat (as prey)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 62 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 70 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC",
          "text": "Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, page 202",
          "text": "The food industry and its allies in the agricultural and chemical industries prey on the vulnerable by pumping out barely regulated products at low cost and then marketing them with insidious advertising campaigns.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exploit or victimize."
      ],
      "id": "en-prey_on-en-verb-A~OjP~ae",
      "links": [
        [
          "exploit",
          "exploit"
        ],
        [
          "victimize",
          "victimize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To exploit or victimize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to exploit or victimize",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "żerować"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to exploit or victimize",
          "word": "predar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1852, George Payne Rainsford James, “Remorse”, in A Book of the Passions, Henry G. Bohn, page 2",
          "text": "The past—to me, the dreadful past !—is one eternal present ; and the Promethean vulture of remorse preys on me now, and for ever.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To weigh heavily upon (a person's mind)."
      ],
      "id": "en-prey_on-en-verb-mRGSm3cG",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To weigh heavily upon (a person's mind)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prey on"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "preys on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preying on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preyed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preyed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "prey on (third-person singular simple present preys on, present participle preying on, simple past and past participle preyed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Owls prey on small mammals, such as mice.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat (as prey)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "prey",
          "prey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To eat (as prey)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC",
          "text": "Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, page 202",
          "text": "The food industry and its allies in the agricultural and chemical industries prey on the vulnerable by pumping out barely regulated products at low cost and then marketing them with insidious advertising campaigns.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exploit or victimize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exploit",
          "exploit"
        ],
        [
          "victimize",
          "victimize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To exploit or victimize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1852, George Payne Rainsford James, “Remorse”, in A Book of the Passions, Henry G. Bohn, page 2",
          "text": "The past—to me, the dreadful past !—is one eternal present ; and the Promethean vulture of remorse preys on me now, and for ever.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To weigh heavily upon (a person's mind)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To weigh heavily upon (a person's mind)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to exploit or victimize",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "żerować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to exploit or victimize",
      "word": "predar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prey on"
}