verb
- to attack and rob or plunder; to prey upon destructively
Usage: formal
Examples
- The invading army depredates the countryside, leaving villages in ruins.
- Pirates historically depredate merchant ships along trade routes.
- The disease depredates the forest, killing thousands of trees.
- Locusts depredate crops across the entire region.
- War depredates both the land and its people.
- The hurricane depredates coastal communities every few years.