depredate
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"Cats depredate and scavenge a large fraction of the species present across the range available in the landscapes they forage in," the authors write.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2023
Fire-breathing, venomous once, they no longer now depredate our Flocks and meadows and woods, fields of golden grain.
From Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Not a thief or a robber can live or depredate among their tenants.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
Continuing, he charged the general with inciting his employés to depredate on the fences and fields.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various
They then go out and depredate the country.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett) Reed
Just before the harvest season, it became palpable that this field, then waving with wheat, was depredated upon to a wasteful extent by some unknown subjects of the animal kingdom.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride.
From From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" by Henry Morley
Bull, now of Philadelphia, writes respecting the position of several boxes of minerals left in the Lyceum of Natural History, of New York, in 1822, which have, been sadly depredated on.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Depredā′tion, act of plundering: state of being depredated; Dep′redator.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
"Herein we describe, to our knowledge, the first recorded instance of a Burmese python actively defending a nest and the first record of a bobcat depredating a python nest."
From Fox News ● Mar. 17, 2022
Trapping and relocating bears has been a first option when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has dealt with depredating bears.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
“They are depredating our deer population, killing livestock and attacking family pets,” they said in the memo.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2017
But wildlife advocates and animal rights groups contend the response to depredating wolves has become too heavy-handed.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2010
If at night, they would not disturb the old man, but while some would watch, others would be depredating upon his pig pen, chicken roost, or milk house.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
