0 (an act causing) damage or destruction:
Depredation of (= damage done to) the environment is destroying hundreds of species each year.
I was enabled to actually see the extent of these depredations by means of the diving dress.
While dramatically women in opera suffer every known form of sexist depredation, vocally they enjoy absolute parity with men.
Likewise, elimination of pulp reduces the risk of depredation and fungal attacks.
The reason for not keeping seed is that farmers cannot guarantee its safe storage in their village against the depredations of rats and insects.
Dons, their standing not yet reduced by the depredations of novelists, were awesome, even legendary figures.
We have come to know the human immunodeficiency virus and, largely through its depredations, the fragile magic of cellular immunity.
The navy needs vessels, including several submarines, to protect its fishing grounds from depredations by factory ships of foreign powers (p. 17).
For the most part, they claimed that they existed to protect themselves and the public from the depredations of strike breakers, intimidators, and rumour mongers.
