'Depredation' definitions:
Definition of 'depredation'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Depredation'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'depredation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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