depredate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Late Latin depraedari, depraedat-: Latin de- + praedari (“to plunder”).
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depredate (third-person singular simple present depredates, present participle depredating, simple past and past participle depredated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To ransack or plunder; to prey upon.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
- It makes the substance of the body […] less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
Translations[edit]
to ransack or plunder
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