0 (an act causing) damage or destruction: --
Depredation of (= damage done to) the environment is destroying hundreds of species each year.
Every year, another few inches are lost from the village green as a result of the depredations of traffic and deliveries to supermarkets.
There is a particular difficulty here in protecting the policy holder who puts his money in against the depredations of rascals.
The enemy's oppressions, his depredations, his cruelties and his crimes have been done on other soil than ours.
It is only in that way that the general public can be defended against the depredations of bookmakers who give unfair odds.
If their depredation was such as might attract the attention of a higher level of authority they were simply driven into an adjacent district to become somebody else's problem.
The association between height and mortality suggests that more people are now reaching old age with lives which are less damaged by the insults and depredations suffered by earlier generations.
Whilst his poetics is based on a desire to return to the land as a pristine space, in so doing it also discovers the depredations done to that land.
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.
