DEPREDATE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.