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DEPREDATING
Definition of DEPREDATING
verb
present participle and gerund of depredate
DEPREDATE
verb
To ransack or plunder; to prey upon.
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Word DNA
DEPREDATING inherits its ancestry from its root, DEPREDATE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,595)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEPREDATE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEPREDATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
Built from these letters
DEPREDATING starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADDEEGINPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.
Words that start DEPREDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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