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Depredate

//ˈdɛpɹədeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To ransack or plunder; to prey upon. ambitransitive

    "It makes the substance of the body […] less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits."

Etymology

Late Latin depraedari, depraedat-: Latin de- + praedari (“to plunder”).

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