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Despoilment
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predation
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. act of predating
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All these spikes evolved originally as a way of preventing predation by larger fish. ▪ Below low water mark, predation by lobsters may be significant. ▪ It is a reflex born of predation by voracious crabs that nip at the tender ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "act of plundering or pillaging," from Latin praedationem (nominative praedatio ) "a plundering, act of taking booty," from praedari "to rob, to plunder," from praeda "plunder, booty, prey" (see prey (n.)). Zoological sense recorded from 1907.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding [syn: depredation ] the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predation \Pre*da"tion\, n. [L. praedatio, fr. praedari to plunder.] The act of pillaging. --E. Hall.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In an ecosystem, predation is a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked). Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation often results ...
Usage examples of predation.
Many of its young would fall to starvation, competition with their siblings, or predation by birds and carnivores.
Many of them fell to predation, but that was the way of things: Enough of them would survive.
But here the selective influence of predation would be, if anything, in the direction of making the cries quieter.
Like its behavior, its body was optimized for a lifestyle dominated by inexorable predation, with long, powerful legs for instantaneous acceleration and a streamlined rib cage built around a tremendous set of lungs for sustained speed.
Despite the passage of twenty-some years and the increasingly obvious predation of the PRH, the arguments against keeping the Basilisk System had not quieted in the least.
Since the fall of Okrannel, and the loss of its navy, the pirates have largely been unimpeded in their predation of the lower sea.
Her predations are kept to a minimum while our armies are honed by fighting her.
The Jeranese have not thought about the predations of foreign armies marching through their nation?
As a consequence of these predations the game had been severely reduced in numbers, and even the quagga had become something of a rarity within the immediate environs of the town and castle.
Why, given the superb solid-oak construction and high-quality brass reinforcement, I daresay the Criterion Patented Brassbound Pie Safe could withstand even the predations of our friend the bruin.
Its size means that predation by browsers that can survive its defenses only damages a small portion of the main body.
Vast numbers of sexual predation reports waited years until someone was willing to break the code of silence surrounding them.
You can lock yourself up in a box made of lead, And be safe from the fallout and all cosmic ray But no such protection will save your poor head, For the elements comprising your body betray You with unstable isotopes that leak radiation, Subjecting your neurons to steady predation.
That was the only evidence of nonmotile predation occurring in their immediate vicinity.
The Ovines wanted very much to be free of predation, and this promised that.