DEPREDATION

depredation

Noun

  1. An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
  2. A raid or predatory attack
    Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids.()


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