depredation
noun
[ ˌdɛprɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)n ]
• an act of attacking or plundering.
• "protecting grain from the depredations of rats and mice"
Similar:
plundering,
plunder,
looting,
pillaging,
robbing,
robbery,
raiding,
ravaging,
sacking,
sack,
ransacking,
devastation,
laying waste,
wreckage,
destruction,
damage,
ravages,
raids,
acts of destruction,
despoiling,
despoliation,
rape,
rapine,
ravin,
spoliation,
reaving,
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘plundering, robbery’, (plural) ‘ravages’): from French déprédation, from late Latin depraedatio(n- ), from depraedari ‘plunder’.
