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depredation

noun

1 depredation

An act of plundering and pillaging and marauding.

synonym: predation.

Roget 791: stealing etc. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny, direption; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism; latrocinium.    spoliation, ... show more

Dutch: plundering, rooftocht

2 depredation

usually plural A destructive action:
— The depredations of age and disease.

synonym: ravage.

Dutch: verwoesting


Moby thesaurus: banditry, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, carnage, consumption, damnation, decimation, desolation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, direption, disintegration, disorganization, disruption ... show more.

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