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Prey on

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Main Entry: prey on
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attack, terrorize

Synonyms:

blackmail, bleed, bully, burden, consume, depredate, devour, distress, eat, exploit, feed on, fleece, haunt, hunt, intimidate, live off, load, oppress, plunder, raid, seize, take advantage of, tax, trouble, victimize, weigh, worry

Antonyms:

guard, protect, save
Main Entry: feed on
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: consume

Synonyms:

devour, eat, exist on, fare, feast, graze, have a bite, ingest, live on, meal, munch, nibble, nurture, partake, pasture*, peck, pig out, prey on, scarf, snack, sponge, subsist, take, take nourishment
Main Entry: haunt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: visit as a spirit

Synonyms:

agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, be ever present, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook, stay with, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo, walk, weigh on, worry
Main Entry: oppress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: depress, subdue

Synonyms:

abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annoy, beat down, burden, crush, despotize, dishearten, dispirit, distress, encumber, force, handicap, harass, harry, hound, keep down, maltreat, outrage, overcome, overload, overpower, overthrow, overwhelm, persecute, pick on, plague, press, prey on, put down, put screws to, put the squeeze on, put upon, ride, rule, sadden, saddle, smother, strain, subjugate, suppress, tax, torment, torture, trample, trouble, tyrranize, vex, weigh heavy upon, worry, wrong

Antonyms:

aid, boost, delight, gladden, help, make happy
Main Entry: tax
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: burden

Synonyms:

charge, cumber, drain, encumber, enervate, exhaust, lade, load, make demands on, oppress, overburden, overtax, overuse, overwork, press hard on, pressure, prey on, push, put pressure on, saddle, sap, strain, stress, stretch, task, tire, try, weaken, wear out, weary, weigh, weigh down, weigh heavily on, weight

Antonyms:

unburden
Main Entry: victimize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cheat, fool

Synonyms:

bamboozle*, burn*, chisel, clip, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, discriminate against, dupe, exploit, fleece, flimflam, gull, have it in for, hoax, hoodwink, immolate, persecute, pick on, pigeon, prey on, rope in, screw*, set up*, snow*, stack the deck, stiff*, sting*, sucker, swindle, take advantage of, trick, use

Antonyms:

aid, assist, help, protect
Main Entry: weigh down
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: depress

Synonyms:

bear down, burden, cumber, get down, hold down, oppress, overburden, overload, press, press down, prey on, pull down, sadden, task, trouble, weigh upon, weight, worry

Antonyms:

cheer, delight, please
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