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单词 depredation
释义
depredation
noun[Cusually plural,U]
formal
uk
/ˌdep.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdep.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/
(anactcausing)damageordestruction:
损失；损害，破坏
Theentireareahassufferedthe depredationsofwar.整个区域都遭到了战争的破坏。
Depredationof(=damagedone to)theenvironmentisdestroyinghundreds ofspecieseachyear.对环境的破坏每年导致数百物种的灭绝。
Synonyms
desolation(EMPTINESS)
destruction
devastation(DAMAGE)
ruin
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Destroying and demolishing
  • annihilate
  • annihilation
  • apocalypse
  • bash
  • bash through (something)
  • be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
  • in piecesidiom
  • indestructibility
  • killsomethingoff
  • kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
  • knock
  • sacrifice
  • self-devouring
  • shred
  • sink
  • smash
  • stave
  • stavesomethingin
  • takesomethingout
  • tear
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(Definition ofdepredationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdepredation

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I was enabled to actually see the extent of these depredations by means of the diving dress.
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While dramatically women in opera suffer every known form of sexistdepredation, vocally they enjoy absolute parity with men.
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Likewise, elimination of pulp reduces the risk ofdepredationand fungal attacks.
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The reason for not keeping seed is that farmers cannot guarantee its safe storage in their village against the depredations of rats and insects.
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Dons, their standing not yet reduced by the depredations of novelists, were awesome, even legendary figures.
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We have come to know the human immunodeficiency virus and, largely through its depredations, the fragile magic of cellular immunity.
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The navy needs vessels, including several submarines, to protect its fishing grounds from depredations by factory ships of foreign powers (p. 17).
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For the most part, they claimed that they existed to protect themselves and the public from the depredations of strike breakers, intimidators, and rumour mongers.
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Whilst his poetics is based on a desire to return to the land as a pristine space, in so doing it also discovers the depredations done to that land.
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The association between height and mortality suggests that more people are now reaching old age with lives which are less damaged by the insults and depredations suffered by earlier generations.
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If theirdepredationwas such as might attract the attention of a higher level of authority they were simply driven into an adjacent district to become somebody else's problem.
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It is only in that way that the general public can be defended against the depredations of bookmakers who give unfair odds.
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The enemy's oppressions, his depredations, his cruelties and his crimes have been done on other soil than ours.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There is a particular difficulty here in protecting the policy holder who puts his money in against the depredations of rascals.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Every year, another few inches are lost from the village green as a result of the depredations of traffic and deliveries to supermarkets.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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