preys
SayPRAYZ/pɹeɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of prey.
The hawk preys on rodents in the open fields.
A con artist preys on the trust of lonely people.
Note
A verb form that never takes a direct object. Preying is intransitive, so the victim follows a preposition: a hawk preys on rodents, a swindler preys on the lonely, but nothing simply preys a victim. The same spelling is also the plural of the countable noun, so context decides whether preys names what a hunter does or the creatures it takes.
preys is a form of prey
prey, verb: To behave as a predator, hunting and feeding on other animals. Full entry
- Spelling
- prey → preys: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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