| 单词 | to prey over |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto prey over b. intransitive. To plunder or pillage; to rob or raid, to target for robberies. Also †to prey over. Now passing into sense 2c. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)] reaveOE stripa1225 pill?c1225 robc1225 peela1250 despoil1297 raimc1300 spoilc1330 spoila1340 to pull a finch (also pigeon, plover, etc.)c1387 despoil1393 preya1400 spoila1400 spulyiea1400 unspoila1400 riflec1400 poll1490 to pill and poll1528 to poll and pill1528 exspoila1530 pilyie1539 devour?1542 plume1571 rive1572 bepill1574 fleece1575 to prey over1576 pread1577 disvaledge1598 despoliate1607 to make spoil of1613 expilate1624 to peel and poll1641 depredate1651 violatea1657 disvalise1672 to pick feathers off (a person)1677 to make stroy of1682 spoliate1699 pilfer1714 snabble1725 rump1815 vampire1832 sweat1847 ploat1855 vampirize1888 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Matius in Panoplie Epist. 115 Either to aske that which was another mans right, or else to pray vpon that which was none of their owne. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 71 He gaue..treasure there, to the Ianizaries and Spaheis to prey ouer. a1680 J. Glanvill Serm. (1681) iv. 212 No mans Life or property will be safe; mankind would worry and prey upon one another. 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. ii. 10 Regions of calamity, where discord was always raging, and where man preyed upon man. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Crit. & Hist. Ess. III. 120 Ferocious invaders descended through the western passes, to prey on the defenceless wealth of Hindostan. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 264 The buccaneers preying upon Spanish commerce were masters of the smaller W. India Islands. 1926 J. Black You can't Win ix. 111 He..made his living serving as ‘target’ or outside man, for the yegg mobs that preyed on country banks. 1964 R. Silverberg Great Adv. Archaeol. v. 163 Deprived of their bakshish, the Arabs preyed on the archaeologists. 1994 N.Y. Times 27 Nov. v. 13/5 Bandits continued to prey upon trains in these mountains from time to time. < as lemmas |
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