Prey vs. Pray — What's the Difference?

An animal hunted or caught by another for food

To utter or address a prayer or prayers to a deity or an object of worship, often as an entreaty

The collection of animals typically hunted and eaten by a predator

To use prayer to request (that something may happen)

An object or victim of attack

To say (a prayer or group of prayers)

One that is subjected to or afflicted with something

To make a devout or earnest request for

One that is deceived or taken advantage of by another

To utter or say a prayer or prayers to; address by prayer

The act or practice of preying.

(Archaic) To ask (someone) imploringly for something; beseech. Used chiefly in the phrase I pray you to introduce a polite or urgent request or question

Plunder; booty.

Used to make a polite or urgent request or question

To hunt, catch, or eat as prey

(religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.

To victimize or make a profit at someone else's expense

To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.

To plunder or pillage

(obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

To exert a baneful or injurious effect

To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.

(archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war

(obsolete) To implore, to entreat, to request.

That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured

Please; used to make a polite request

A person or thing given up as a victim.

Alternative form of pray tell

A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.

See Pry.

(archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.

The victim of a disease.

To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

(intransitive) To act as a predator.

To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.

That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.

Address God; say a prayer

The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

Call upon in supplication; entreat;

To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence;

Animal hunted or caught for food

Profit from in an exploitatory manner;

Prey on or hunt for;