Depredation (noun)
dep-red-ay-shun
An act of attacking or plundering.
Late 15th century (in the sense ‘plundering, robbery’, (plural) ‘ravages’): from French déprédation, from late Latin depraedatio(n-), from depraedari ‘plunder’.
Example sentences
“Africa has been shaped forever by colonial depredation.”
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