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third-person singular simple present depredates, present participle depredating, simple past and past participle depredated
(transitive, intransitive) To ransack or plunder; to prey upon. quotations examples
It makes the substance of the body […] less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]