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depredation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of depredation

formal a usually violent act in which something is damaged or destroyed or in which a person or animal is killed

The town had somehow escaped the depredations of enemy soldiers.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of depredation

despoilment, despoliation

annihilation, decimation, demolishment, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, extermination, extinction, havoc, loss, mincemeat, obliteration, ruin, ruination, wastage, wreckage

breakup, collapse, disintegration, dissolution

assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter

dismantlement, effacement, eradication

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of depredation

rescue, salvage, salvation, saving

conservation, preservation, protection

reclamation, reconstruction, re-creation, refurbishment, regeneracy, remodeling, renovation, restoration

building, construction, erection, raising

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