depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seeing the boy scudding away at such a rapid pace, he very naturally concluded him to be the depredator; and shouting 'Stop thief!' with all his might, made off after him, book in hand.

From Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles

It was against the grain to condemn her as all bad, a depredator, a woman with perverted moral sense who broke the law and did evil things.

From The Passenger from Calais by Griffiths, Arthur

"By the by, Miss Buff, have you discovered yet the depredator of your poultry-yard?"

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]

Great was the wonder which now rose as to who the depredator could be, and what motive he could possibly have had for acting so strange a part.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various