Meaning & use
Depredations
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Acts of attacking, plundering, or laying waste to something.
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The village never fully recovered from the depredations of the invading army.
Historians documented the depredations wrought by decades of unchecked deforestation.
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From Latin "praedari," to plunder, the same root as "predator"; usually appears in formal or historical writing.
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