What is "depredations"

Usage examples of "depredations".

Such attacks were not unknown in settlements such as this, composed of strangers desperate to escape the depredations of the Hecari.

The only felines on any of the Isles were domestic or feral housecats, kept to check the depredations of rats and mice, and there was not one horse to be found.

In fact, Paul reflected wryly, this world should be safe even from the depredations of the photino birds.

The short sway of these lawless bands had wrought much terror, suffering, and harm upon the already-stricken land, but they had, unknowing of it, also wrought not a little good in their depredations, Harold later concluded, in that they had wantonly fired numerous of the steadings, farms, halls, manors, castles, and abbeys after they had looted them, thus destroying and subjecting to direct-flame sterilization countless reservoirs of the plague.

Those who do so are thenceforth our friends and there will be no depredations of any of their possessions or vassals.

I daresay, conduct their depredations while considering-if they take time to consider at all.

This situation has become impossible to tolerate, as the depredations of the so-called crackers, descendants of the criminal hackers of the twentieth century, have become the center of a criminal economy that rivals the Mafia in scope and enterprise.

For if he lived, she reasoned, he was now the rightful King of the Six Duchies and their last hope against the depredations of the Red Ships.

For months every effort had to be taken to track down every last insect of some species that, in its own Settlement, is harmless, or that, on Earth, can keep its depredations local.