Definitions for depredation
depre·da·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. depredation, predationnoun

   an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

2. ravage, depredationnoun

   (usually plural) a destructive action

   "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. depredationnoun

   An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.

2. depredationnoun

   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)

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Depredationnoun

   Etymology: deprædatio, Latin.

   1. A robbing; a spoiling.

   Commissioners were appointed to determine all matters of piracy and depredations between the subjects of both kingdoms. John Hayward.

   The land had never been before so free from robberies and depredations as through his reign. Henry Wotton.

   2. Voracity; waste.

   The speedy depredation of air upon watry moisture, and version of the same into air, appeareth in nothing more visible than in the sudden discharge or vanishing of a little cloud of breath, or vapour from glass, or the blade of a sword, or any such polished body. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 91.

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1. depredation

   Depredation refers to an act of attacking or plundering, causing destruction or loss. It involves the act of preying upon or exploiting something, often in the context of aggressive and damaging behavior. In ecology, it may refer to the act of animals hunting and feeding on other organisms.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Depredationnoun

   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

2. Etymology: [L. depraedatio: cf. F. dprdation.]

Matched Categories

1. • Destruction
   • Plundering

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of depredation in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of depredation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of depredation in a Sentence

1. Ross MacPhee:

   Despite their ungainly appearance, different species of glyptodonts occupied habitats as distinct as open grassland and dense woodland, all the way from Patagonia to the southern parts of the continental United States, although their disappearance has been blamed on human depredation as well as climate change, some species persisted into the early part of the modern or Holocene epoch, long after the disappearance of mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Like the loss of giant ground sloths, mastodons, and dozens of other remarkable mammalian species, the precise cause of the New World megafaunal extinctions remains uncertain.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=depredation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Depredation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=depredation
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depredation