| depredate | (เดพ'ริเดท) v. ปล้น, ปล้นสะดม, ทำลาย, ปล้น, See also: depredator n. ดูdepredate depredatory adj. ดูdepredate, Syn. plunder |
| depredation | (เดพพริเด'เชิน) n. การปล้น, การปล้นสะดม, โจรกรรม |
| predate | (พรีเดท') vt. ลงวันที่ไว้ล่วงหน้า, ลงเวลาไว้ก่อน |
| predation | (พรีเด'เชิน) n. การปล้นสะดม, การกินสัตว์อื่นเป็นอาหาร, ลักษณะการปล้นสะดม, การเบียดเบียน |
| predator | (เพรด'เด เทอะ) n. ผู้ปล้นสะดม, สัตว์ที่จับสัตว์อื่นเป็นอาหาร, ผู้เบียดเบียน, สิ่งเบียดเบียน |
| depredation | (n) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding, Syn. predation |
| predate | (v) be earlier in time; go back further, Syn. antecede, precede, forego, antedate, forgo, Ant. postdate, Example: Stone tools precede bronze tools |
| predate | (v) establish something as being earlier relative to something else, Syn. antedate, foredate, Ant. postdate |
| predation | (n) the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey |
| predator | (n) any animal that lives by preying on other animals, Syn. predatory animal |
| predatory | (adj) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey, Syn. ravening, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous, rapacious, Example: a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal |
| marauder | (n) someone who attacks in search of booty, Syn. predator, vulture, piranha |
| precede | (v) come before, Syn. predate, Example: Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify |
| predaceous | (adj) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; ; - Peter S. Prescott; - W.E.Swinton, Syn. predacious, predatory, Example: predatory capitalists; a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal; a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster |
| ravage | (n) (usually plural) a destructive action, Syn. depredation, Example: the ravages of time; the depredations of age and disease |
| raven | (v) prey on or hunt for, Syn. prey, predate, Example: These mammals predate certain eggs |
| Depredate | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depredated p. pr. & vb. n. Depredating ] [ L. depraedatus, p. p. of depraedari to plunder; de- + praedari to plunder, praeda plunder, prey. See Prey. ] To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon. [ 1913 Webster ] It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Depredate | v. i. To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Depredation | n. [ L. depraedatio: cf. F. déprédation. ] The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Depredator | n. [ L. depraedator. ] One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Depredatory | a. Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Predate | v. t. To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Predation | n. [ L. praedatio, fr. praedari to plunder. ] The act of pillaging. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Predatorily | adv. In a predatory manner. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Predatory | a. [ L. praedatorius, fr. praedari to plunder, fr. praeda prey. See Prey. ] 1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. “A predatory war.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and predatory. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Zool.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous. [ 1913 Webster ] |
