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English
Etymology
Late Latin depraedari, depraedat-: Latin de- + praedari (“to plunder”).
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Verb
depredate (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 ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:It makes the substance of the body […] less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
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Italian
Verb
depredate
- second-person plural present and imperative of depredare
Spanish
Verb
depredate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of depredar combined with te