Word Meanings - DEPREDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon. It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to DEPREDATE)

• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• CONSUMINGLY
  In a consuming manner.
• CONSUMPTIVELY
  In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.
• CONSUMABLE
  Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. "Consumable commodities." Locke.
• SUBJECTLESS
  Having no subject.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• SUBJECTIVE
  Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. Syn. -- See Objective. Subjective sensation , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes
• DEPREDATE
  To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon. It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon.
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• CONSUMPTIVE
  Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It is not consumptive
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• INCONSUMPTIBLE
  Inconsumable. Sir K. Digby.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• INSUBJECTION
  Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
• INCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not finished; incomplete. Sir M. Hale. -- In`con*sum"mate*ness, n.