depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

The king has recourse to stratagem, for the purpose of detecting the depredator, but without success.

From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

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 Ten Boys from Dickens by Williams, George Alfred

But if superior profits be a sufficient reason for continuing distillation, it is a reason that will justify the robber, the thief, and every other depredator upon the rights of others.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

It would seem as if it was too well screened; it was in such a spot as any depredator would be apt to explore.

From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz