depredated

past tense of depredate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for depredated
Verb
  • Thieves looted France’s most famous crown jewels, including an emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise, as Fox News Digital previously reported about the Louvre heist.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • According to a report by the Human Rights Defense Network, at least 148 people were killed, many burned alive; 62 houses were torched, and another 26 houses were looted.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Along with goods for trade and plundered wealth, concepts of the soul have traveled the networks of empire.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The 18 runs plundered off one over was the most Jasprit Bumrah had ever conceded in Tests, leaving the bowler perplexed as he was replaced.
    Sam Dalling, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Oren Amir, founder of Go Home Builders in Los Angeles, said some of his rebuilding projects in Altadena, where residential areas were destroyed by January’s wildfires, have been delayed by conflicting guidance from the city on rooftop solar panel requirements.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Shipments may not be delivered, or even destroyed, as shipping companies seek information required to adhere to new tariffs.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At the same time, members of the powerful Viv Ansanm gang coalition had pillaged and/or burned at least 410 residences and other buildings, including six schools, health centers and local nongovernmental organizations during the period.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • To sum up, that is four different managers over five spells, none of whom were actually sacked, just seven league wins, and one calamitous relegation.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Wentz was also sacked five times.
    Anne Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hours after thieves launched a brazen heist at the Louvre in Paris, another French museum was ransacked.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The prosecution said Hernandez hit Murray's wife and bound her with duct tape in the kitchen and Zuazo ransacked the house.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In their study, University of Tokyo professors Emi Nishimura and Yasuaki Mohri have shed light on what happens when these pigment-producing stem cells are damaged.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And this is the same thing all Gazans did after their homes were bombed or damaged.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • No, baseball was not yet ruined.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • There is even Depardieu’s own late son, Guillaume, whose death at age thirty-seven was hastened along by heroin use that had ruined his health, and over whom Ferrara recalls Depardieu shedding copious tears during one of their early meetings.
    Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Depredated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depredated. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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