DEPREDATED

Verb

depredated

simple past tense and past participle of depredate

Source: Wiktionary


DEPREDATE

Dep"re*date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depredated; p. pr. & vb. n. Depredating.] Etym: [L. depraedatus, p. p. of depraedari to plunder; de- + praedari to plunder, praeda plunder, prey. See Prey.]

Definition: To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon. It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon.

Dep"re*date, v. i.

Definition: To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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