- depredation
- n1. plunder, plundering, plunderage, rapine, pillage, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin; preying upon, ravaging, ravage, harrying, marauding, Archaic. maraud, sacking, Rare. sackage; laying waste, devastation, desolation; raid, inroad, razzia, foray; foraging, looting, ravishment, seizure, grag, rape; kidnapping, hijacking, skyjacking, air piracy, commandeering.2. brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering, U.S. Inf. (usu. of cattle) rustling; robbery, theft, thievery, Law. larceny, stealing.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.