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depredation

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dep=re=da=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

depredation, n. (usu. in pl.)
1 despoiling, ravaging, or plundering.
2 an instance or instances of this.

Etymology
F d{eacute}pr{eacute}dation f. LL depraedatio (as DE-, praedatio -onis f. L praedari plunder)

THESAURUS

depredation

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

ROGET THESAURUS

depredation

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.


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