depredation
21depredation — noun a) An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder. Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of …
22depredation — Synonyms and related words: banditry, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, carnage, consumption, damnation, decimation, desolation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, direption, disintegration,… …
23depredation — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. pillage, plunder, robbery, laying waste; see destruction 1 , theft …
24depredation — dep|re|da|tion [ ,deprə deıʃn ] noun count usually plural FORMAL damage or harm that is done to something …
25depredation — see PREY …
26depredation — dep·re·da·tion || ‚deprɪ deɪʃn n. ravishing; plundering, pillaging …
27depredation — n. Spoliation, rapine, robbery, theft, pillage, plunder, pilfering …
28depredation — noun (countable often plural) formal an act of cruelty, violence, or destruction …
29depredation — n 1. plunder, plundering, plunderage, rapine, pillage, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin; preying upon, ravaging, ravage, harrying, marauding, Archaic. maraud, sacking, Rare. sackage; laying waste, devastation …
30depredation — dep·re·da·tion …