depredate

English

Etymology

Late Latin depraedari, depraedat-: Latin de- + praedari (“to plunder”).

Verb

depredate (third-person singular simple present depredates, present participle depredating, simple past and past participle depredated)

1. (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

to ransack or plunder

• Bulgarian: грабя (bg) (grabja), плячкосвам (bg) (pljačkosvam)

• Italian: depredare (1)

Related terms

• depredation
• predate
• predation
• predator
• prey

Anagrams

• readepted

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Italian

Verb

depredate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of depredare