depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would again show him that she was not a lone and helpless woman at the mercy of the casual depredator.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

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 Burckhardt, John Lewis

Great was the wonder which now rose as to who the depredator could be, and what motive he could possibly have had for acting so strange a part.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various