depredate
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English
9 letters
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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.
To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.
Definition: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.
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