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PREY UPON

Modern Translation: PREY UPON

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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