| 单词 | depredation |
| 释义 | depredation (once / 2415 pages) n The horrors of war include depredation — the plundering and ransacking of the defeated and their homes, the terrible, unrestrained preying on the conquered. The word depredation entails all of the pain humans inflict upon each other. The Latin language makes the noun praeda "prey" into the verb praedārī, which then means "to plunder." As if that wasn't enough — they added the prefix de-, "thoroughly," to create a word that says it all. In 15th-century French, the word became depredation, but the meaning was far from refined, describing a wholesale pillaging of those who became the "prey" and continuing the history of man’s inhumanity to man. WORD FAMILYdepredation: depredations USAGE EXAMPLESNext time a western politician complains about Robert Mugabe’s depredations in Zimbabwe, the ready reply will be: just look at Donald Trump. The Guardian(Dec 25, 2016) The administration’s response to the neoconservative depredations of the past decade was to revert to old dogmas: the dogmas of “realism”. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) It’s true that he often denounced the depredations of corporate America, lobbing populist salvos at free trade, outsourcing, and Wall Street for hurting working people. The Guardian(Dec 13, 2016) 1n an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding Syn|Hyper predation pillage, pillaging, plundering the act of stealing valuable things from a place 2n (usually plural) a destructive action the depredations of age and disease Syn|Hyper ravage demolition, destruction, wipeout an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |
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