depredation

Other forms of depredation

plural

depredations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about depredation

What does depredation mean?

depredation means "an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depredation?

depredation has 4 syllables: dep-re-da-tion. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ˌdɛpɹəˈdeɪʃən/.

What is another word for depredation?

Close synonyms include predation, ravage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is depredation a common word?

depredation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with depredation?

18 words rhyme with depredation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.