Killed
Prey
Prey noun - An animal that is hunted or killed.
Both words in one sentence
- Jondalar, the mate of Ayla in Earth's Children is often described as asking the prey he just killed to confer his thanks to the "Great Earth Mother".
Source: Thank Your Prey - Dragons see gold as pretty but useless and cow in a pasture as prey waiting to be killed, not someone else's property (when killed, it becomes the killer's).
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While suctioned prey is often suffocated in the process of being swallowed, specimens of deepsea fish have been found killed by their struggling prey while in the process of trying to swallow them.
Source: Weapons That Suck
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Prey and Killed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/killed/prey
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