Difference between Feed and Prey

What is the difference between Feed and Prey?

Feed as a verb is to give food to eat, nurture while Prey as a verb is to victimize, hunt, attack or plunder.

Feed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to give food to eat, nurture to eat (usually of animals) To give to a machine to be processed.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed. A gathering to eat, especially in quantity Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that you can subscribe to with a feed reader.

Example sentence: A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.

Prey

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To victimize, hunt, attack or plunder.To devour.To exert harmful influence.

Example sentence: Young people in Brazil for a long time have been an easy prey for the Left, from communists in Brazil. Social media liberated them from that.

We hope you now know whether to use Feed or Prey in your sentence.

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