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fall pray

fall pray is the misspelling of fall prey.

Meaning of fall prey

Verb

fall prey (third-person singular simple present falls prey, present participle falling prey, simple past fell prey, past participle fallen prey)

  1. To be affected, or overcome by, a bad situation; used with to.
    • Many children at our school have fallen prey to the 'flu bug.
    Synonyms:
    fall victim

Questions about fall pray

What is fall pray the misspelling of?
Fall pray is the misspelling of fall prey.

Words near fall pray in the dictionary

  1. fall over
  2. fall over one's feet
  3. fall over oneself
  4. fall plate
  5. fall plates
  6. fall pray
  7. fall pregnant
  8. fall prey
  9. Fall Reeve
  10. Fall River
  11. Fall River County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fall pray (page history and authors); fall prey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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