Definition of "prays" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pray. (verb)

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• "Griffin plans to fly to Lewis College in Southern California to meet his pen pal Carrot (who he prays is the female of his dreams) and his running teammates."
• "The modern prays, that is he begs of his idol, his deity, to prosper his business, to guard his life, and, as one of my "super-devout" acquaintances recently informed me, on the eve of an important golf match, for the Deity to give him endurance; in other words, "to cut down his golf score.""
• "Sixth, when are people going to wakeup to the fact that the two party system is a system designed to thwart real democracy and stop acting like Steve King (R-Iowa) who 'prays' that this country never becomes a democracy?"