depredation
noun/ˌdeprəˈdeɪʃn/
/ˌdeprəˈdeɪʃn/
[usually plural] (formal)- an act that causes damage to people’s property, lives, etc.Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘plundering, robbery’, (plural) ‘ravages’): from French déprédation, from late Latin depraedatio(n-), from depraedari ‘plunder’.
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