predation — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The preying of one animal on others.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

2. The action of attacking or plundering.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   […]this priest roade in his goune of velvet, with a greate trayne, and was received into every Religion with Procession, as though the legate had bene there, and toke such greate sommes for his visitacion, that the religious sore were greved, and murmured much against it, and in especiall, for they were charged with greate sommes of money to the kyng, and now thys sodayn visitacion or predacion, cleane shaved them.

Noun

1. an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

   Synonyms

   depredation

   Broader terms

   plunderingpillagepillaging

2. the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey

   Broader terms

   hunthunting