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depredation🔊

An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.

A raid or predatory attack.

💬 Quotations
At last the merchants who had suffered most from these depredations went in a body before Gunshankar, and said to him: “O flower of the law! robbers have exercised great tyranny upon us, so great indeed that we can no longer stay in this city.”
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