DEPREDATE

Definitions: DEPREDATE

DEPREDATE

Intransitive verb

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

Transitive verb

1. To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DEPREDATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Crosswords: DEPREDATE

Albanian

shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), rrënoj (beggar, collapse, destroy, do for, exhaust, ravage, ruin, vandalize, waste), plaçkit (despoil, forage, Harry, hijack, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, pirate, plunder, Raven, ravish, Rob, sack), grabit (amputate, deprive, despoil, flay, fleece, loot, rabble, ransack, Raven, ravish, reave, reive, rent, rip off, Rob, sack, subtract). (various references)

Bulgarian 

грабя (despoil, pirate, plunder, ravage, reave, reive, sack, spoil), опустошавам (become desolate, devastate, havoc, infest, overrun, ravage, scourge, sweep, waste, wreak). (various references)

Greek 

υποτιμώ (belittle, debase, deflate, depreciate, derogate, devalue, disparage, minimize, misjudge, to underestimate, underestimate, underrate, understate, undervalue), εξευτελίζω (abase, debase, degrade, demean, derogate, discredit, humiliate, vilify). (various references)

Hungarian

pusztít (destroy, to rave, waste). (various references)

Manx

craghey (filibuster, maraud, massacre, overrun, pillage, pirate, plunder, ravage, ravish, ruin, scoop, spoil). (various references)

Pig Latin

epredateday

Portuguese

devastar (desolate, devastate, devour, forage, Harrow, Harry, haw, lay by, mow, overrun, prey upon, pull about, punish, ravage, reave, reive, waste), destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat crow, end, explode, extinguish, finished, havoc, impaired, kill the goose that lays golden eggs, mine, obliteration, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, to kill, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), depredar, saquear (clear out, devastate, foray, Harry, loo-table, maraud, pillage, pillar, plunderage, price, ravage, Raven, reave, reive, rifle, sack), pilhar (despoil, forage, foray, Harry, loot, marauder, pillage, plunder, prey upon, ravage, Raven, reave, reive, rifle, Rob), assolar (desolate, destroy, devastate, Harry, havoc, infestation, lay waste, ravage, reave, reive, waste), arruinar (blight, break, crack, decay, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, fling, injure, Mar, mine, puncture, ravage, reave, reive, ruin, spoil, undo, unmake, waste). (various references)

Russian 

грабить (despoil, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, prey upon, ramp, ransack, ravish, reave, reive, robbing, sack), опустошать (decimate, deplenish, devastate, gut, havoc, lay waste, overrun, ravage, reave, reive, scourges). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

opljačkati (burglarize, burgle, despoil, hold up, pillage, pirate, ransack, rifle, rob, sack, scourge, stick up). (various references)

Spanish

depredar. (various references)

Swedish

plundra (despoil, forage, foray, gut, Harry, loot, pick, pirate, plunder, ransack, rifle, Rob, sack), härja (devastate, make a row, rage, ravage). (various references)

Ukranian 

спустошувати (bare, decimate, deplenish, deplete, desolate, devastate, foray, gut, havoc, lay waste, overrun, play havoc, ravage, reave, reive, waste), розкрадати (despoil, peculate). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "DEPREDATE": depredated, depredates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"DEPREDATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: degredate, deprivate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: departed, departee, predated, repeated.

-2 letters: adepter, derated, petered, predate, redated, retaped, tapered, treaded.

-3 letters: darted, deader, deeper, depart, derate, draped, padder, pardee, parted, pedate, peered, petard, prated, reaped, redate, reeded, repeat, retape, teared, tedder, traded.

-4 letters: adder, adept, apter, arete, dared, dated, dater, derat, deter, drape, dread, dreed, eared, eater, etape, padre, pared, pated.

+1 letter: deprecated, depredated, depredates.

+2 letters: depreciated.

+3 letters: decrepitated, interpleaded, premeditated.

+4 letters: predesignated, predestinated, preponderated.

+5 letters: daguerreotyped, premeditatedly, unpremeditated.

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