different between depredation vs spoliation

English

Etymology

From Middle French déprédation, from Latin depraedatio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?p???de???n/

Noun

depredation (countable and uncountable, plural depredations)

1. An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
   • 2003, The Living Elephants: Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation, by R. Sukumar, page 299:

     Depredation of cultivated crops by elephants is widespread in both Africa and Asia.

2. A raid or predatory attack.

   Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids. (Battle of Brice's Crossroads)

Translations

Related terms

• predation
• predator
• prey

English

Etymology

From Latin spoliatio.

Noun

spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)

1. (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery

   Synonyms: deprivation, despoliation

   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1:

     In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.

2. Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
3. (law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.

Derived terms

• writ of spoliation

Related terms

• despoil
• despolation
• spoil
• spoliate
• spoliative
• spoliator
• spoliatory
• spolium

Translations

References

• spoliation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• spoliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• isopointal, positional

French

Pronunciation

Noun

spoliation f (plural spoliations)

1. spoliation