| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| depredate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dep·re·date |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d p r -d t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: dep·re·dat·ed, dep·re·dat·ing, dep·re·dates
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To ransack; plunder. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To engage in plundering. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin d praedr , dpraedt- : Latin d-, de- + Latin praedr, to plunder (from praeda, booty; see ghend- in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | depre·dator —NOUN
de·preda·tory (d-prd -tôr, -t r, dpr-d-) —ADJECTIVE
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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