Multiple acts or instances of plundering, raiding, or preying upon; collective ravaging and theft.
Plural of depredation, from Latin depraedatio with -s suffix for plural; maintains the root praedari meaning plunder.
Historical accounts describe the 'depredations' of Viking raids with almost poetic language—the term became a way to measure the devastation of entire civilizations through systematic theft.
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