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Word of the Day for Sunday, May 24, 2009depredation \dep-ruh-DAY-shun\, noun: 1. An act of plundering or despoiling; a raid. . . .the depredations of pirates and privateers on the high seas. Arguing for drastic measures, they cite the horrible depredations of drug addiction. For the moment, Kioni remains a precious fragment of the old Mediterranean, the one that existed before the depredations of pollution and crass, exploitative development. Depredation comes from Late Latin depraedari, "to plunder," from Latin de- + praedari, from praeda, "plunder, prey." | |||||||
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