depredate
English
Etymology
Late Latin depraedari, depraedat-: Latin de- + praedari (“to plunder”).
Verb
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- (transitive, intransitive) To ransack or plunder; to prey upon.
- Francis Bacon
- It makes the substance of the body […] less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
- Francis Bacon
Translations
to ransack or plunder
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