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DEPREDATION
Definition of DEPREDATION
noun
An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French déprédation, from Latin depraedatio.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.9%
of traced words share this origin (9,038)
branch · 32.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEPREDATION · 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.
DEPREDATION 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 5 days.
Built from these letters
DEPREDATION starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADDEEINOPRT - 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.
Could you have found DEPREDATION?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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