depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Seeing the boy scudding away at such a rapid pace, he very naturally concluded him to be the depredator; and shouting 'Stop thief!' with all his might, made off after him, book in hand.

From Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

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