Depredation \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
depredation
n 1: an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding [syn: predation]
2: (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of
time"; "the depradations of age and disease" [syn: ravage]
WordNet (r) 2.0
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
DEPREDATION, French law. The pillage which is made of the goods of a
decedent. Ferr. Mod. h.t.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
predation, ravage
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