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 Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Uncle Denis had been busily employed in forming a trap in which he hoped to catch the depredator.

From With Axe and Rifle by Meyer, H.

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

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 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir