depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

He glowered down the trail and shook his clenched fist vengefully at the imaginary depredator, saying in hissing voice, “Him one bad darn beas’!”

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

She would again show him that she was not a lone and helpless woman at the mercy of the casual depredator.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

The depredator who is fortunate enough to escape the former, is seldom able to elude the latter.

From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

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