Was Does Depredation Mean?

noun. the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.

What does depredation mean in English?

transitive verb. : to lay waste : plunder, ravage. intransitive verb.

What does depredation mean in history?

The word depredation entails all of the pain humans inflict upon each other. ... In 15th-century French, the word became depredation, but the meaning was far from refined, describing a wholesale pillaging of those who became the "prey" and continuing the history of man's inhumanity to man.