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What does depredate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) to ransack or plunder; to prey upon
  2. (intransitive) to engage in plundering
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On Triangle Island, bald eagles are known to depredate tufted puffins.
Do southern flying squirrels frequently depredate songbird nests in other areas?
Many types of predators depredate bird nests and thus potentially influence the spatial distribution of their prey.
As a result, the species that most frequently depredate nests vary among studies.
Winter, using clay eggs in artificial nests, inferred that midsized predators do not depredate nests farther than 60 metres from edges in tall-grass prairie.
But the most valuable of the members of the band of friends of the Jameses are those who never go abroad to depredate.

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