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单词 depredator
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depredatorn.

/ˈdɛprɪdeɪtə/
Etymology: < Latin dēpraedātor, agent-noun < dēpraedāre (see depredate v.); perhaps immediately < French déprédateur (14th cent. in Hatzfeld, not in Cotgrave 1611, in Dict. Acad. 1798).
One who, or that which, preys upon or makes depredations; a ravager, plunderer, pillager.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]
riflera1350
ravenerc1384
pillerc1385
preyerc1390
raptora1398
peelera1425
despoiler1467
spulyierc1475
pillardc1485
ruggerc1485
pollera1513
booty-fellow1530
spoiler1535
caterpillar1541
kitea1556
ransacker?1576
predator1581
lurdan1589
worm1591
scraper1598
pillager?1611
ravager1611
bird of preya1616
depredator1626
plunderer1639
expilator1658
shark1713
depredationist1828
spoliator1831
rapiner1843
ravisher1851
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §492 They be both great Depredatours of the Earth.
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 143 Hawking..is..a generous exercise, as well for variety of deprædators as preys.
1799 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons I. i. ii. 34 It [sc. Heiligland] was thronged with maritime depreditors.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xv. 217 The depredators were twelve Highlanders. View more context for this quotation
1851 Beck's Florist 100 If you should be annoyed by a small black insect..use every means to encourage the plants..by brushing the depredators from the points of the shoots.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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