Crossword-Solution: PREY 4 letters, 273 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Prey	n.	Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
Prey	n.	That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
Prey	n.	The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
Prey	n.	To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PREY	anagram	PYRE, REPY, RYPE, YPER

We have 273 clues for the answer “PREY”

Clue	Answers
Target for a predator	1 answer
"Birds of ___"	1 answer
"Let us ___" (raiders' motto?)	1 answer
"Predator" prequel starring Amber Midthunder	1 answer
"The hunted"	1 answer
'03 Tiamat album	1 answer
2002 Michael Crichton novel about nanotechnology	1 answer
2022 film in the "Predator" franchise	1 answer
2022 prequel film in the "Predator" franchise	1 answer
2022 prequel, appropriately, to 1987's "The Predator"	1 answer
Victim in a food chain	1 answer
Animal hunted for food	1 answer
Animal lower on the food chain, relatively speaking	1 answer
Animal stalked by another.	1 answer
Animal that's not at the top of the food chain	1 answer
Animals I root for on nature shows	1 answer
Antelope, to a lion	1 answer
Antelopes, to cheetahs	1 answer
Antelopes, to lions	1 answer
Ants, for aardvarks	1 answer
Ants, for an anteater	1 answer
Ants, to aardvarks	1 answer
Any hunted animal	1 answer
Aphids, to ladybugs	1 answer
Be raptorial	1 answer
Bird of __ (eagle or vulture)	1 answer
Carnivore's catch	1 answer
Carnivore's quarry	1 answer
Carnivore's target	1 answer
Carnivore's victim	1 answer
Chicken, to a chicken hawk	1 answer
Christina Aguilera: "Birds of ___"	1 answer
Cobra, to a mongoose	1 answer
Commit depradations.	1 answer
Crichton novel with evil nanorobots	1 answer
Crichton thriller about marauding swarms of nanobots	1 answer
DEVOUR victim	1 answer
Deer and elk, to a wolf	1 answer
Deer, to a cougar	1 answer
Eagle's objective	1 answer
Elands, to lions	1 answer
Elephants, to an elephant hunter	1 answer
Exert a harmful influence.	1 answer
Field mouse, to an owl	1 answer
Fish to hawk e.g.	1 answer
Hunted animal, for example	1 answer
Fish, to a fish eagle	1 answer
Fish, to an eagle	1 answer
Fish, to an erne	1 answer
Fish, to bears	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EETAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PREY (5)

Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

For now, and since first break of dawne the Fiend, Meer Serpent in appearance, forth was come, And on his Quest, where likeliest he might finde The onely two of Mankinde, but in them The whole included Race, his purposd prey.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Stout as she was, she roamed the scrubby banks of Norway Creek looking for fox grapes and goose plums, like a wild creature in search of prey.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Bibot would look at his prey as a cat looks upon the mouse, play with him, sometimes for quite a quarter of an hour, pretend to be hoodwinked by the disguise, by the wigs and other bits of theatrical make-up which hid the identity of a _ci-devant_ noble marquise or count.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with PREY (3)

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

Arthur Schopenhauer On the Suffering of the World

He seized me as boldly as a tiger captures his prey. There was no escape. And I didn't want to. I would have happily died in his clutches. I was his, and he made sure I knew it. My heart burst with a thousand beautiful blooms, all tiger lilies. And I knew with a certainty more powerful than anything I'd ever felt before that we belonged together. He finally lifted his head and murmured against my lips, "It's about bloody time, woman.

Colleen Houck Tiger's Quest

My panties were still on but he didn’t let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing my sex, making low, growling noises in his throat like a big cat purring with pleasure while it devoured its prey.

Emme Rollins Dear Rockstar

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 480 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).