"fall prey" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls prey",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling prey",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell prey",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen prey",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> prey"
      },
      "expansion": "fall prey (third-person singular simple present falls prey, present participle falling prey, simple past fell prey, past participle fallen prey)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Many children at our school have fallen prey to the 'flu bug."
        },
        {
          "text": "Inexperienced teachers sometimes fall prey to fears that they do not know enough."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be affected, or overcome by, a bad situation; used with to."
      ],
      "id": "en-fall_prey-en-verb-DL45q5Za",
      "links": [
        [
          "affected",
          "affected"
        ],
        [
          "overcome",
          "overcome"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fall victim"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to be affected by a bad situation",
          "word": "áldozatul esik"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be affected by a bad situation",
          "word": "cadere vittima"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to be affected by a bad situation",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "paść ofiarą"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to be affected by a bad situation",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "padać ofiarą"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall prey"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls prey",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling prey",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell prey",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen prey",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> prey"
      },
      "expansion": "fall prey (third-person singular simple present falls prey, present participle falling prey, simple past fell prey, past participle fallen prey)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Many children at our school have fallen prey to the 'flu bug."
        },
        {
          "text": "Inexperienced teachers sometimes fall prey to fears that they do not know enough."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be affected, or overcome by, a bad situation; used with to."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "affected",
          "affected"
        ],
        [
          "overcome",
          "overcome"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fall victim"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to be affected by a bad situation",
      "word": "áldozatul esik"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be affected by a bad situation",
      "word": "cadere vittima"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be affected by a bad situation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "paść ofiarą"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be affected by a bad situation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "padać ofiarą"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall prey"
}