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Depredation vs Despoilment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between depredation and despoilment

is that depredation is an act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder while despoilment is the act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.

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. ()

    despoilment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
  • * 1994 : Noah M. Lemos, Intrinsic Value
    • On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.

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