Meaning of DEPREDATION
| Pronunciation: | | `depri'deyshun
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- [n] an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
- [n] (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depradations of age and disease"
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DEPREDATION is a 11 letter word that starts with D. |
| | Synonyms: | | predation, ravage |
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| | See Also: | | demolition, destruction, pillage, pillaging, plundering | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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