depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Between these a constant stream of patrols is kept up, so that no depredator can do very much damage without detection.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various

The depredator was still brandishing the miserable instrument, which he had borrowed for the occasion of the fellow who cut the company's hair in the "Owl House."

From The Drummer Boy by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

The robbers have recourse to stratagem, for the purpose of discovering the depredator, but without success.

From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various