Bible Dictionaries
Depredate

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. i.) To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.

(2):

(v. t.) To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Depredate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/depredate.html. 1828.