depredator
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
We watched for several following nights, but if Master Bruin had been the depredator, he was too wary to repeat his visits.
From With Axe and Rifle by H. Meyer
The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster’s heart.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
It may easily be imagined, however, that depredations are often committed, without the possibility of redress, the depredator being unknown, or flying immediately towards the desert.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
It was not long before the depredator of the night was there, and a lurid gleam stood out of his eyes.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
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