Crossword clues for depredate
depredate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depredate \Dep"re*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depredated; p. pr. & vb. n. Depredating.] [L. depraedatus, p. p. of depraedari to plunder; de- + praedari to plunder, praeda plunder, prey. See Prey.] To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.
It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be
consumed and depredated by the spirits.
--Bacon.
Depredate \Dep"re*date\, v. i. To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin depredatus, past participle of depraedare "to pillage, ravage" (see depredation).\n
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to ransack or plunder; to prey upon 2 (context intransitive English) to engage in plundering
Usage examples of "depredate".
Finding little to eat in the bleak, snow-drifted woods, it soon began to depredate on the moose, and killed two or three, generally by lying in wait and dashing out on them as they passed near its lurking-place.
I thought you to be an expert cut-purse, who depredated all the fairs and festivals of Dahaut.
It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride.
She turned herself around, moving in small, cautious increments and breathing deeply so that she would not whimper from the pain emanating from those parts of her that were most tender and vulnerable and yet had been most viciously depredated by her captors.
And they could not understand at all why no swift depredating graces nor any habit of long soft hooting belonged to that lady-bird.
More logically, he surmised, they were probably flying cover while they practiced other, more depredating activities to come, although he was hard-pressed to fathom what they might be.