| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.[Websters]
2. To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.[Websters] 3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: depredating, depredated, depredates, depredator, depredators, depredatingly and depredatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DEPREDATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEPREDATE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To plunder; to rob; to pillage; to take the property of an enemy or of a foreign country by force; as, the army depredated the enemys country. That kind of war which depredates and distresses individuals.. | 2: [Verb] To prey upon; to waste; to spoil.. | 3: [Verb] To devour; to destroy by eating; as, wild animals depredate the corn.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] to engage in plundering (intransitive). (references) | 2: [Verb] to ransack or plunder (transitive). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
