depredated

You can use "preyed on", although it has the potential to end a sentence with a preposition, so I prefer "depredated" as an alternate to "predated" meaning eaten.

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Even China will be depredated by this, losing the main market on which their economic power is based.

Stephen Herrington: Trade Is An Issue Americans Understand; Why Doesn't Geithner? 2010

I don't care for depredated myself, as you can usually avoid the end-of-sentence preposition with "preyed on."

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It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride.

From London to Land's End 2003

It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride.

From London to Land's End 2003

It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride.

From London to Land's End 2003

Just before the harvest season, it became palpable that this field, then waving with wheat, was depredated upon to a wasteful extent by some unknown subjects of the animal kingdom.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

But France, once our ally, has dared to insult us! she has violated her obligations; she has depredated our commerce -- she has abused our government, and riveted the chains of bondage on our unhappy fellow citizens!

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 Various

Stoneman, having crossed the rivers higher up, made a raid in the direction of Richmond which accomplished nothing of consequence, but merely frightened and depredated upon the unarmed country people.

Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States, 1912

Tripoli; and as Tunisian corsairs had never depredated upon American commerce, the Mediterranean sea was now opened to the mercantile marine of the United States.

Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852