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noun an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
noun the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
originBorrowed from Latin praedātiō, praedātiōnis, from praedor (“pillage, plunder”), from praeda (“plunder, spoils”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0