English-French translations for depredation

• déprédation
  Nous savons tous que nous devons avancer et que les personnes actuellement en place ne sont pas responsables de ces déprédations. All of us know we have to go forward and that the present incumbents in office are not the people responsible for these depredations.

Definition of depredation

• An act of consuming agricultural resources , especially as plunder
• A raid or predatory attack

Examples

• 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 Forrests cavalry raids. (Battle of Brices Crossroads

Related words

• depredate
• depredator
• depredatory