depredación

f.

depredation, devastation, plundering, predation.

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depredación

► nombre femenino

1 (saqueo) pillaging, plundering

2 (malversación) misappropriation (of funds), embezzlement

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SF

1) (=saqueo) pillage

2) (Zool) predation

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femenino (frml)

a) (Zool) predation (frml)

b) (daño) depredation (frml)

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= predation, depredation, plundering.

Ex. Safety in numbers serves as a defense strategy in many organisms, as aggregation can reduce the probability of predation for individual group members.

Ex. Libraries and archives are the subject of increasing depredations by thieves and vandals.

Ex. The focus of the study was the plundering of Jewish gold in the German death camps.

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femenino (frml)

a) (Zool) predation (frml)

b) (daño) depredation (frml)

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= predation, depredation, plundering.

Ex: Safety in numbers serves as a defense strategy in many organisms, as aggregation can reduce the probability of predation for individual group members.

Ex: Libraries and archives are the subject of increasing depredations by thieves and vandals.

Ex: The focus of the study was the plundering of Jewish gold in the German death camps.

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depredación

feminine

(frml)

1 (Zool) predation (frml)

2 (daño) depredation (frml)

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depredación nf

1. [entre animales] hunting, preying

2. [daño] depredation, pillaging

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depredación

f depredation

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depredación nf

saqueo: depredation, plunder