fall prey
verbDefinitions
To be affected, or overcome by, a bad situation
To be affected, or overcome by, a bad situation; used with to.
- Many children at our school have fallen prey to the 'flu bug.
- Inexperienced teachers sometimes fall prey to fears that they do not know enough.
- Even now gay rights ordinances are in danger of being repealed by local and statewide initiatives. Indeed, San Francisco, the self proclaimed gay capital, is in the danger of falling prey to the anti-gays.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fall prey. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA