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What does preying mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of prey
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Perhaps even more worrying, the pythons may be preying on native mangrove fox squirrels and wood storks.
Cold-hearted door-to-door salesmen are preying on the elderly and conning them into buying over-priced funerals.
He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
And rather than go hungry, the birds are preying on other seabirds like puffins and kittiwakes.
Ruthless thieves are preying on the elderly outside charity and discount shops in Swindon.
Others are active hunters, preying on the ocean floor and crushing food with blunt flattened teeth.

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