Depredated

Word DEPREDATED
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Depredated"

What do we mean by depredated?

To ransack or plunder; to prey upon.

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The word "depredated" in example sentences

You can use "preyed on", although it has the potential to end a sentence with a preposition, so I prefer "depredated" as an alternate to "predated" meaning eaten. ❋ AYDIN (2007)

Even China will be depredated by this, losing the main market on which their economic power is based. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't care for depredated myself, as you can usually avoid the end-of-sentence preposition with "preyed on." ❋ AYDIN (2007)

It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But France, once our ally, has dared to insult us! she has violated her obligations; she has depredated our commerce -- she has abused our government, and riveted the chains of bondage on our unhappy fellow citizens! ❋ Various (N/A)

Just before the harvest season, it became palpable that this field, then waving with wheat, was depredated upon to a wasteful extent by some unknown subjects of the animal kingdom. ❋ Various (N/A)

Stoneman, having crossed the rivers higher up, made a raid in the direction of Richmond which accomplished nothing of consequence, but merely frightened and depredated upon the unarmed country people. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Tripoli; and as Tunisian corsairs had never depredated upon American commerce, the Mediterranean sea was now opened to the mercantile marine of the United States. ❋ Benson John Lossing (1852)

-- L. Bull, now of Philadelphia, writes respecting the position of several boxes of minerals left in the L.ceum of Natural History, of New York, in 1822, which have, been sadly depredated on. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

History, of New York, in 1822, which have, been sadly depredated on. ❋ Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1828)

Nevertheless, it is a fact beyond all dispute, that the commerce of the country was terribly depredated on by nearly all the European belligerents, between the commencement of the war of the French revolution and its close. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

But in our case, the government only gave wild lands, that they might be redeemed from a state of nature; that the obstacles to a first settlement might be overcome; that they might be rid of those savages who continually depredated upon the inhabited parts of the nation, and that they might be placed in a situation to augment the physical strength and power and revenue of the republic. ❋ Unknown (1820)

I will point out that I have written an essay entitled 'What went wrong' the misdirection of civilization 'that establishes that the operations of industrial civilization has irreversibly depredated the limited available natural capital. ❋ Danielsydney (2008)

And that a contract with the French Govern - ment tat coin, had been diachaigvd in depredated ai - ❋ Unknown (1789)

BRITISH MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. equal pse-omiiiance in wery art and fcience, where has excellence is often difpu table, or evidently inferior to tlut of depredated foreigners, he im - mediately finks in the estimation of tvtry genuine citizen of the world.. ❋ Unknown (1783)

a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

'Splain to him dat we' se a real quality family, an 'regularly accustomed to de finest ob plate, till de Hessians depredated it. " ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)

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