An act of plundering or robbing; the process of stripping resources through violence or theft; widespread destruction and theft.
From Latin depraedatio (plunder), formed from praedari (to plunder) with Latin noun-forming -tion/-ation suffix.
Insurance companies track 'depredations' by wildlife—a beaver's depredation of a dam's engineering or a bear's depredation of a campsite—because these raids cause measurable economic losses.
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