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   dep·re·da·tion

   /ˌdeprəˈdāSH(ə)n/

   noun

   • 1. an act of attacking or plundering: "protecting grain from the depredations of rats and mice"

   Word Origin late 15th century (in the sense ‘plundering, robbery’, (plural) ‘ravages’): from French déprédation, from late Latin depraedatio(n-), from depraedari ‘plunder’.

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