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Depredation vs Depredator - What's the difference?

depredation | depredator |

As nouns the difference between depredation and depredator

is that depredation is an act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder while depredator is one who depredates, or commits depredation.

depredation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
  • * 2003 , The Living Elephants: Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation, by R. Sukumar, page 299:
    • Depredation of cultivated crops by elephants is widespread in both Africa and Asia.
  • A raid or predatory attack
    • Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids. ()

    depredator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who depredates, or commits depredation.
  • *1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
  • *:An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1836, author=Robert Huish, title=Lander's Travels, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Orders were now given to fire on all depredators , royal or plebeian; and after a few shots had been discharged without producing any fatal effects, the thieves hid themselves amongst the rocks, and were merely seen peeping through the crevices. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, title=The Wrecker, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart. }}