depredator
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
This course punishes the innocent and rewards the guilty, because the property taken by the depredator is of more value than the slight percentage he loses.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
It may easily be imagined, however, that depredations are often committed, without the possibility of redress, the depredator being unknown, or flying immediately towards the desert.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
But when Will declared their intention of watching that night for the depredator, her anger vanished in fear.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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