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What is another word for depredations?

Pronunciation: [dɪpɹɪdˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Depredations are defined as the destructive actions of raiding or pillaging. There are several synonyms for this word, including ravage, plunder, despoil, loot, strip, and sack. Ravage emphasizes the severe extent of the damage caused, while plunder and loot emphasize the act of taking or stealing. Despoil, strip, and sack all mean to deprive or rob of possessions or resources. Other synonyms for depredations include maraud, ransack, and forage, all of which have a connotation of searching or scavenging for resources. No matter which synonym is used, depredations all imply destructive and harmful actions by someone or something.
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Usage examples for Depredations

The rabbits had committed great depredations in the garden, and the gardener had procured two rabbit-traps.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
Since then I have surprised him often at the same depredations.
"Ways of Wood Folk"
William J. Long
One of Warwick's ships, the Treasurer, had sailed from England in April 1618 with a license to capture pirates, which was one way of getting a ship cleared from English ports for depredations against the Spaniard at a time when the king had set his face against all such activity.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven

Famous quotes with Depredations

  • In the Smokies, over 90 percent of Fraser firs—a noble tree, unique to the southern Appalachian highlands—are sick or dying, from a combination of acid rain and the depredations of a moth called the balsam woolly adelgid. Ask a park official what they are doing about it and he will say, “We are monitoring the situation closely.” For this, read: “We are watching them die.”
    Bill Bryson
  • Dio Nicæus, an ancient author, speaking of the inhabitants of the northern parts of this island, tells us, they were a fierce and barbarous people, who tilled no ground, but lived upon the depredations they committed in the southern districts, or upon the food they procured by hunting.
    Joseph Strutt
  • 'I have myself seen the depredations of the Afghans round Dehli and Mattra. God defend us from them! It makes the very hair of the body stand on end to think of them. Two hundred thousand men were destroyed in these massacres, and the hordes of the enemy were without number. Such atrocities, forsooth, were perpetrated in compliance with their religion and law! What cared they for the religion, the law, the honour and reputation of the innocent sufferers? It was enough for such bigots that splendour accrued by their deeds to the faith of Muhammad and 'Ali!'
    Ahmed Shah Durrani
  • The usual pattern is that tyrannies depend on supporters whose lawlessness they have to ignore, and whose depredations they are not powerful enough to formalize.
    Curtis Yarvin

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