depredation
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depredations
plural
depredations
Britannica Dictionary definition of DEPREDATION
formal
:
a usually violent act in which something is damaged or destroyed or in which a person or animal is killed
[count]
— usually plural
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The town had somehow escaped the depredations of enemy soldiers.
[noncount]
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a brutal act of depredation
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trying to prevent livestock depredation by wolves
