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Definition of Predation

1. Noun. An act of plundering and pillaging and marauding.

2. Noun. The act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey.

Definition of Predation

1. n. The act of pillaging.

Definition of Predation

1. Noun. act of predating ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Predation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predation

precycled precycles precycling pred predacean predaceans predaceous predaceousness predacious predacities

predacity predate predated predates predating predation predations predatism predatisms predator

predator-bug predator bug predator bugs predatorily predators predatory predatory animal predatory pricing predawn predawns

Literary usage of Predation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Ralph Henry Hess, Charles Kenneth Leith, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"PRODUCTION VERSUS Predation So much has been written in a demagogic vein ... It is tune to begin talking about protecting production against predation. ..."

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