Depredate vs Depredator - What's the difference?
depredate | depredator |
to ransack or plunder; to prey upon
* Francis Bacon
to engage in plundering
One who depredates, or commits depredation.
*1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
*:An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator .
*{{quote-book, year=1836, author=Robert Huish, title=Lander's Travels, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Orders were now given to fire on all depredators , royal or plebeian; and after a few shots had been discharged without producing any fatal effects, the thieves hid themselves amongst the rocks, and were merely seen peeping through the crevices. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, title=The Wrecker, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart. }}
As a verb depredate
is to ransack or plunder; to prey upon.As a noun depredator is
one who depredates, or commits depredation.depredate
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Verb
(depredat)- It makes the substance of the body less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
depredator
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