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Meanings of depredation in English
Portuguese
depredação Catalan
depredació Synonyms
Examples for "predation"
Examples for "predation"
1
But the culture there doesn't make the society vulnerable to their predation.
2
The pearlfish has to swim up sea cucumber butts to escape predation.
3
How do you deny yourself of your natural predation instincts to produce?
4
And, until recent human-led extermination campaigns, wolves have faced little predation pressure.
5
Trump justifies his trade war with China as protecting America from Chinese predation.
Usage of depredation in English
1
The clematis root disease is the depredation of a nematode or eel-worm.
2
From that period, the scourge of Norman depredation became gradually less felt.
3
But even cottage property scarcely seems safe from legislative depredation now, sir.
4
Fourth and fifth fingers on right hand missing, probably rodent depredation.
5
His depredation involved him in no suspicion; his changing features rendered recognition impossible.
6
The practice of living by depredation runs in families, and clings to individuals.
7
His estate was ravaged, and subjected to constant waste and depredation.
8
Brigandage has involved a great deal of depredation upon foreign interests.
9
War, however, may become a less losing business than unresisted depredation.
10
The altar still remains pretty perfect notwithstanding the ravages of time and wanton depredation.
11
Here alone was disclosed evidence in plenty of deliberate purpose, of skilfully planned depredation.
12
By this untimely depredation they plundered the owner of his property, without enriching themselves.
13
I tried to be faithful to our articles of depredation; but there came a limit.
14
Mr. Mickley himself intimated that he suspected the quarter from which the depredation had come.
15
That is, if Shekels is out on depredation and I can't get hold of him.
16
Tell us, please, how many to-day did you thus incite to future laziness and depredation?
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