Depredations
[,deprɪ'deɪʃənz]
Examples
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- On they came to the portals of Kulonga's hut, the very one in which Tarzan had wrought his depredations. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I had often made depredations on these preserves; and the neglected state of the property facilitated my incursions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Inputed by Byron