Crossword-Solution: PREYS 5 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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PREYS anagram PYRES, SPYER, YPRES

We have 49 clues for the answer “PREYS”

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Stalks, with "on" 1 answer
Hunts for a meal 1 answer
Hunts the weak. 1 answer
Intends to dine (on) 1 answer
Is a bad influence (on) 1 answer
Is rapacious 1 answer
Makes like a carnivore, with "on" 1 answer
Makes raids (on). 1 answer
Participates in a hunt 1 answer
Plunders with upon 1 answer
Seeks victims. 1 answer
Seizes and devours, with "on" 1 answer
Hunts for a living meal 1 answer
Takes advantage of, with "on" 1 answer
Victimizes (with "on") 1 answer
Victimizes (with "upon") 1 answer
Weighs heavily (on). 1 answer
Weighs heavily (with "on"). 1 answer
Weighs on the mind 1 answer
___ on (hunts) 1 answer
___ on (pillages). 1 answer
___ on (victimizes) 1 answer
___ on (weighs heavily on). 1 answer
Hunts as food, with "on" 1 answer
Acts like a raptor 1 answer
Acts raptorial 1 answer
Aims to feed (on) 1 answer
Culls the pack 1 answer
Emulates a hungry lion 1 answer
Emulates a hungry tiger 1 answer
Emulates a raptor 1 answer
Emulates raptors 1 answer
Feeds (on) 1 answer
Goes after, with "on" 1 answer
Hunts for food like a predator 1 answer
Hunts (with "on") 1 answer
Hunts and eats, with "on" 1 answer
Hunts and kills 1 answer
Is a menace to 2 answers
Homophone for praise 2 answers
Victimizes. 3 answers
Hunts for food 3 answers
Victims 4 answers
Hunts 6 answers
ravages 8 answers
Quarries 9 answers
DICKINSON 'A FICKLE FOOD UPON A SHIFTING PLATE' 10 answers
COARSE FOOD COMPOSED OF ENTIRE PLANTS OR THE LEAVES AND STALKS OF A CEREAL CROP 10 answers
Plunders 16 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREYS (5)

For death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother’s corpse.
Virginibus Puerisque Robert Louis Stevenson 2012
XIX The naked folk of Barca these succeed, Unarmed half, Alarcon led that band, That long in deserts lived, in extreme need, On spoils and preys purchased by strength of hand.
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1995
She had rheumatism horribly, some kind of lung trouble, and the almost universal and repulsive catarrh that preys upon working people.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 2006
Weller, ‘that if you let your master take in this here young lady, you’re a precious rascal?’ ‘I know that,’ said Job Trotter, turning upon his companion a countenance of deep contrition, and groaning slightly, ‘I know that, and that’s what it is that preys upon my mind.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 2009
The puma, with the condor and other carrion-hawks in its train, follows and preys upon these animals.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1997

Quotes with PREYS (3)

(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)
Michael J. Sandel Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds
Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Shadow of the Wind
Nature allows one kind to kill another, it's part of the law ... you wonder if man might not be the most savage of all creatures. He's among the few that preys on nearly every other being, that constantly preys on his own species.
Leonard Budgell Arctic Twilight: Leonard Budgell and Canada's Changing North
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 74 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).