predation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

predation
    n 1: an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding [syn:
         {depredation}, {predation}]
    2: the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Predation \Pre*da"tion\, n. [L. praedatio, fr. praedari to
   plunder.]
   The act of pillaging. --E. Hall.
   [1913 Webster]

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