Dictionary Definition
depredation
Noun
1 an act of plundering and pillaging and
marauding [syn: predation]
2 (usually plural) a destructive action; "the
ravages of time"; "the depradations of age and disease" [syn:
ravage]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
- A raid or predatory attack
- Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids.(Battle of Brice's Crossroads)
Translations
An act of consuming agricultural resources
A raid or predatory attack
- Russian: налёт
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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