DEPREDATION, noun
1. The act of plundering; a robbing; a pillaging.
2. Waste; consumption; a taking away by any act of violence. The sea often makes depredations on the land. Intemperance commits depredations on the constitution.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.