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Depredation

The act of depredating or the state of being depredated the act of despoiling

Liable to depredation

Tending or designed to depredate characterized by depredation plundering as a depredatory incursion

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a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th

To subject to plunder and pillage to despoil to lay waste to prey upon

One who plunders or pillages a spoiler a robber

Demerara durable in salt water because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle

down, and protect the inhabitants of the neighbourhood from their depredations, an officer was appointed under the Crown called the Steward

joined in a body of more than thirty-five to commit depredations, Ang. Sax.

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