About The Word Depredation
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Depredation
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What's The Definition Of Depredation?
[n] an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
[n] (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depradations of age and disease" Synonyms | Synonyms for Depredation: predation | ravage Related Terms | Find terms related to Depredation: banditry | bloodbath | blue ruin | breakup | brigandage | brigandism | carnage | consumption | damnation | decimation | desolation | despoiling | despoilment | despoliation | destruction | devastation | direption | disintegration | disorganization | disruption | dissolution | foraging | foray | freebooting | havoc | hecatomb | holocaust | laying waste | looting | marauding | perdition | pillage | pillaging | plunder | plundering | raid | raiding | ransacking | rape | rapine | ravage | ravagement | ravages | ravaging | ravishment | razzia | reiving | rifling | robbery | ruin | ruination | sack | sacking | shambles | slaughter | spoiling | spoliation | undoing | vandalism | waste | wrack | wrack and ruin | wreck See Also | demolition | destruction | pillage | pillaging | plundering Depredation In Webster's Dictionary \Dep`re*da"tion\, n. [L. depraedatio: cf. F.
d['e]pr['e]dation.]
The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the
act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes
depredation on the land.
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