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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Depredate

Dép're-dāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. DEPREDATED; p. pr. & vb. n. DEPREDATING.] [Lat. deprædari, deprædatum, from de and prædari, to plunder, from prædo, plunderer, from præda, plunder, prey; Fr. dépréder, Sp. depredar, It. depredare.]

  1. To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste.
  2. To destroy by eating; to devour.

It maketh the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon.

Dĕp're-dāte, v. i.

verbintransitive

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