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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.

sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation. A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. Pope.

Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.

One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.

The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. ix. 26.

A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer. The destruction that wasteth at noonday. Ps. xci. 6.

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay.

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. Bouvier.

or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezek. vii. 15. I waste my life and do my days devour. Spenser.

To impair by waste and abuse; to squander. The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated. Wood.

Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention. The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York. Strype.

To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. Bp. Burnet.

Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

Devastated; laid waste. [Obs.]

Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter. Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks. Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.

Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.