prey vs victim

prey

noun
  • A person or thing given up as a victim. 

  • That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured 

  • A living thing that is eaten by another living thing. 

  • The victim of a disease. 

verb
  • To act as a predator. 

victim

noun
  • One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam. 

  • One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular 

  • One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness. 

  • A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite. 

  • The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist. 

  • One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition. 

  • One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own. 

How often have the words prey and victim occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )