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Definition of depredation in English: depredationnoun ˌdɛprɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)nˌdɛprəˈdeɪʃən usually depredationsAn act of attacking or plundering. protecting grain from the depredations of rats and mice Example sentencesExamples - Into this special domain went winter coats and wool items to be protected against the depredations of moths, silver fish, and their ilk.
- For years, the gardens have been suffering from the depredations of the little pests.
- Property rather than the people themselves were the victims of his depredations but his attacks were aimed just as much at the civil will as the morale of Confederate soldiers.
- They preyed on roe deer, red deer, and wild boar, but were also much loathed and dreaded for their depredations against livestock, especially sheep.
- Also at risk, as much from further delays as from the operations themselves, is the supply of humanitarian aid to the refugees who are already suffering from the depredations of the attacks.
- What are we going to do to defend ourselves from illegal civil liberties depredations?
- The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
- Livestock can be insured against leopard depredations, so losses can be compensated.
- Another way is to control deer depredations passively, with deer-proof fencing or the planting of ornamental plants unpalatable to deer.
- The gangs are reported to have used racial taunts during their depredations.
- The otter is supposed to have been in the district for some time, for depredations that are now being laid to his charge have been going on for some considerable period.
- Not all things disappear with dramatic suddenness and it might be decades before the various depredations to which wild life is exposed begin to have a noticeable effect.
- Remember how, in response to the depredations of bandits, the villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors.
- The insurrectionists that we have oft complained of late have grown more bold in their depredations, attacking ever nearer to our palace.
- Forget the background of the two, forget their previous depredations and concentrate only on the trial and its end result.
- Of course, his method of limiting the depredations of crime upon society differed dramatically from ours.
- Despite protective laws and natural - park status, the depredations continued.
- There is an old theory which says that populations which are the most under-privileged and suffer most from the depredations of poverty are most likely to see war against an external enemy as an antidote and a release.
- Then the victims of our depredations worldwide need to believe and participate in the making of a better world for them and us.
- Always, always in war there were too few of heroic stature, to counter the depredations of tyrants and monsters.
Synonyms plundering, plunder, looting, pillaging, robbing, robbery, raiding, ravaging, sacking, sack, ransacking, devastation, laying waste, wreckage, destruction, damage ravages, raids, acts of destruction literary despoiling, despoliation, rape, rapine, ravin archaic spoliation, reaving
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'plundering, robbery', (plural) 'ravages'): from French déprédation, from late Latin depraedatio(n-), from depraedari 'plunder'. prison from Old English: This comes via Old French from Latin prehendere ‘to seize’. Prehendere is a rich source of English words, being found, amongst many, in apprehend (late 16th century), comprehend (late 16th century); prehensile (late 18th century); and reprehensible (Late Middle English). A shortening of prehendere lies behind praedari ‘plunder’ and praeda ‘booty’, which lie behind depredation (Late Middle English); predatory [L16]; and prey (Middle English).
Definition of depredation in US English: depredationnounˌdɛprəˈdeɪʃənˌdeprəˈdāSHən usually depredationsAn act of attacking or plundering. protecting grain from the depredations of rats and mice Example sentencesExamples - Property rather than the people themselves were the victims of his depredations but his attacks were aimed just as much at the civil will as the morale of Confederate soldiers.
- Always, always in war there were too few of heroic stature, to counter the depredations of tyrants and monsters.
- Livestock can be insured against leopard depredations, so losses can be compensated.
- Despite protective laws and natural - park status, the depredations continued.
- Then the victims of our depredations worldwide need to believe and participate in the making of a better world for them and us.
- Forget the background of the two, forget their previous depredations and concentrate only on the trial and its end result.
- What are we going to do to defend ourselves from illegal civil liberties depredations?
- For years, the gardens have been suffering from the depredations of the little pests.
- The otter is supposed to have been in the district for some time, for depredations that are now being laid to his charge have been going on for some considerable period.
- Not all things disappear with dramatic suddenness and it might be decades before the various depredations to which wild life is exposed begin to have a noticeable effect.
- The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
- The insurrectionists that we have oft complained of late have grown more bold in their depredations, attacking ever nearer to our palace.
- They preyed on roe deer, red deer, and wild boar, but were also much loathed and dreaded for their depredations against livestock, especially sheep.
- Of course, his method of limiting the depredations of crime upon society differed dramatically from ours.
- Another way is to control deer depredations passively, with deer-proof fencing or the planting of ornamental plants unpalatable to deer.
- Remember how, in response to the depredations of bandits, the villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors.
- Into this special domain went winter coats and wool items to be protected against the depredations of moths, silver fish, and their ilk.
- There is an old theory which says that populations which are the most under-privileged and suffer most from the depredations of poverty are most likely to see war against an external enemy as an antidote and a release.
- The gangs are reported to have used racial taunts during their depredations.
- Also at risk, as much from further delays as from the operations themselves, is the supply of humanitarian aid to the refugees who are already suffering from the depredations of the attacks.
Synonyms plundering, plunder, looting, pillaging, robbing, robbery, raiding, ravaging, sacking, sack, ransacking, devastation, laying waste, wreckage, destruction, damage
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘plundering, robbery’, (plural) ‘ravages’): from French déprédation, from late Latin depraedatio(n-), from depraedari ‘plunder’. |