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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

depredation
    n 1: an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding [syn:
         depredation, predation]
    2: (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time";
       "the depredations of age and disease" [syn: ravage,
       depredation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Depredation \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.
   [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

DEPREDATION, French law. The pillage which is made of the goods of a 
decedent. Ferr. Mod. h.t.

Thesaurus Results for depredation:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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