depredate
English
editEtymology
editLate Latin depraedari, depraedat-: Latin de- + praedari (“to plunder”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈdɛpɹədeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editdepredate (third-person singular simple present depredates, present participle depredating, simple past and past participle depredated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To ransack or plunder; to prey upon.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- It makes the substance of the body […] less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
Related terms
editTranslations
editto ransack or plunder
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Spanish
editVerb
editdepredate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of depredar combined with te
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