Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DEP-RE-DA'TION
DEP-RE-DA'TION, n.
- The act of plundering; a robbing, a pillaging.
- Waste; consumption; a taking away by any act of violence. The sea often makes depredations on the land. Intemperance commits depredations on the constitution.
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