Search Result for "depredation":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding;
[syn: depredation, predation]
2. (usually plural) a destructive action;
- Example: "the ravages of time"
- Example: "the depredations of age and disease"
[syn: ravage, depredation]
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]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
