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| Language | Translations for "PREY UPON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grabis (break in, burgle, hold up, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey, Rob, steal), gjuaj (aim, chase, Chevy, hit, Hunt, prey, shoot, sling, strike, throw), dëmtoj shëndetin (prey), bëj pre (loot, prey). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hook, hunt down, land, nail, nip, nobble, pick up, pot, run down, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down), гоня (badger, chivy, drive, follow, keep away, persecute, prosecute, pursue, push, run, run after, shag, victimize), ловя (receive, take). (various references) | |
Czech | mít zhoubný vliv na. (various references) | |
Finnish | jäytää (gnaw, undermine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לטרוף (devour, mangle, prey, tear to pieces). (various references) | |
Hungarian | harácsol (to rob, to scrounge). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 虎視眈眈 (eying covetously, on the alert, watching vigilantly for an opportunity to prey upon), 虎視眈々 (eying covetously, on the alert, watching vigilantly for an opportunity to prey upon). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こしたんたん (eying covetously, on the alert, watching vigilantly for an opportunity to prey upon). (various references) | |
Manx | y helg, y chraghey, jannoo er (ail, trouble, wage war). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eypray onupay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pilhar (plunder, rob), saquear (clear out, depredate, devastate, foray, harry, loot, maraud, pill, pillage, plunder, ravage, raven, reave, reive, rifle, sack), devastar (depredate, desolate, devastate, devour, forage, harrow, harry, havoc, lay waste, mow, overrun, pull about, punish, ravage, reave, reive, waste), cair sobre (land on). (various references) | |
Russian | грабить (depredate, despoil, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, ramp, ransack, ravish, reave, reive, robbing, sack). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pljačkati (despoil, harry, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, reive, rob), hvatati (catch, prey, prey on, seize, trap). (various references) | |
Swedish | leva på. (various references) | |
Turkish | yiyip bitirmek (demolish, devour, eat up, fret, guzzle, make inroad into, Raven), yağmalamak (despoil, forage, foray, Harry, loot, maraud, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey on, put to the sack, Raven, reave, sack, spoliate, sweep down on), içine dert olmak (prey on, rankle), hutursuz etmek, avlayıp yemek (prey on), avlamak (Hunt). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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