depredator
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if superior profits be a sufficient reason for continuing distillation, it is a reason that will justify the robber, the thief, and every other depredator upon the rights of others.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
It is a great depredator in gardens, which it has been known to plunder of carrots, turnips, and maize—the stalks of which it cuts close down to the ground.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
By themselves both Hakim Khan and the Kirghiz depredator were beneath contempt; but with an enemy established on the soil of the country, they assumed a too clear and mischievous importance.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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
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