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depredation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder. 2 A raid or predatory attack
WordNet
Wikipedia
Depredation may refer to:
- Military raiding, particularly for the purposes of pillage;
- Damage to agriculture attributed to pests;
- Robbery, especially grave or tomb robbing.
Usage examples of "depredation".
He also heard from Prior Alcock that for a month past, the forest below Malvern Abbey, about the Rhydd ford, had been the haunt of a body of outlaws who had committed numerous depredations of an alarming character.
When he described the time of the Border Wars, when Jayhawkers and Bushwackers raided back and forth across the border, until no place was safe from their depredations, she shook her head in sympathy.
Chachapoyans to maintain their little civilization against the depredations of far more militant empires like the Chimu and the Moche?
There had been deaths, of course, to footholds lost, to viruses and bacteria of the hinterland, and to the depredations of the inland predators, animals that unfolded in claws, teeth, cirri, and killed.
If he descended towards the sea, they imputed, and perhaps suggested, to the Gothic chief, the more dangerous project of arming a fleet in the harbors of Ionia, and of extending his depredations along the maritime coast, from the mouth of the Nile to the port of Constantinople.
The Chaka were fean, tough fighters, despite the times their hopeful depredations had resulted in measured reprisals from the more powerful leagues.
It was well worth while, besides, to turn Prospect Heights into a kitchen-garden, defended by its deep belt of creeks, and to remove them to the meadows, which had no need of protection against the depredations of quadrumana and quadrapeds.
It was clear the Hinds were limiting their depredations to the daylight hours, when they could distinguish friend from foe and make their close-support operations more effective.
A great number of merchants from different parts of the kingdom having repeated their complaints of depredations and cruelties committed by the Spaniards in the West Indies, their petitions were referred to the consideration of a grand committee.
Murray learned that a large fleet of piratical junks were said to be commanded by an Englishman, but little was known about them, except from the depredations they committed on the Chinese merchant shipping, and occasionally on that of other nations, although they had hitherto avoided the risk of interfering with English vessels.
On which of these on the morrow would John Macnab begin his depredations?
He became a notorious Matabele induna, and slew hundreds of defenceless Mashona during his depredations.
He became a notorious Matabele induna, and slew hundreds of defenceless Mashona during WHO his depredations.
But also those Eastern lands became impossible to traverse, what with the depredations of Huns, Tartars, Mongols, marauding back and forth across Asia.
The one thing all these lands have in common is mountains, which have always served the Kurds as a defense against the depredations of Syrian, Turkish, Iraqi, and Iranian regimes.