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> pray and prey pray and prey are liable to be confused. They sound alike but they have completely different meanings. Pray means "to speak to God, to make requests of God", as in "pray" and sing hymns in church on Sundays" and "pray to God that the pardon will arrive in time", or "to ask a favour from, to beg", as in "They prayed to the tyrant to release their brother". Prey is a noun meaning "an animal or bird hunted and killed by another animal or bird", as in "The lion had its prey, a deer, in its mouth". It also means "a person who is exploited or harmed by another, a victim", as in "The old lady was easy prey for the con man". Prey is also a verb meaning "to hunt and kill as prey", as in "Eagles prey on small animals", and "to trouble greatly, to obsess", as in "His part in the crime preyed on his mind". Pour éviter fautes de grammaire, contresens et confusions. The English Usage Dictionary est le parfait complément des dictionnaires bilingues, du dictionnaire de définitions anglaises et du Thesaurus. Ce dictionnaire signale toutes les difficultés que recèle l'usage d'un mot: orthographe, grammaire, prononciation, homonymies, etc. Exemple d'article du dictionnaire English Usage Dictionary