Pray vs. Prey: What's the Difference?

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

An animal hunted or caught by another for food

To use prayer to request (that something may happen)

The collection of animals typically hunted and eaten by a predator

To say (a prayer or group of prayers)

An object or victim of attack

To make a devout or earnest request for

One that is subjected to or afflicted with something

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

One that is deceived or taken advantage of by another

(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

The act or practice of preying.

Used to make a polite or urgent request or question

Plunder; booty.

(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 hunt, catch, or eat as prey

To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.

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

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

To plunder or pillage

To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.

To exert a baneful or injurious effect

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

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

Please; used to make a polite request

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

Alternative form of pray tell

A person or thing given up as a victim.

See Pry.

A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.

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.

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

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

The victim of a disease.

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

(intransitive) To act as a predator.

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

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

Address God; say a prayer

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

Call upon in supplication; entreat;

The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

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;