depredate
verb (used with object)
to plunder or lay waste to; prey upon; pillage; ravage.
depredator
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a word derived from
depredate.
Example Sentences
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
The king has recourse to stratagem, for the purpose of detecting the depredator, but without success.
From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
This course punishes the innocent and rewards the guilty, because the property taken by the depredator is of more value than the slight percentage he loses.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
It may easily be imagined, however, that depredations are often committed, without the possibility of redress, the depredator being unknown, or flying immediately towards the desert.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
She would again show him that she was not a lone and helpless woman at the mercy of the casual depredator.
From Septimus by William John Locke
