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preying

  • 1 depredación

    f.
    depredation, devastation, plundering, predation.
    * * *
    1 (saqueo) pillaging, plundering
    2 (malversación) misappropriation (of funds), embezzlement
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    SF
    1) (=saqueo) pillage
    2) (Zool) predation
    * * *
    femenino (frml)
    a) (Zool) predation (frml)
    b) ( daño) depredation (frml)
    * * *
    = 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.
    * * *
    femenino (frml)
    a) (Zool) predation (frml)
    b) ( daño) depredation (frml)
    * * *
    = 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.

    * * *
    ( frml)
    1 ( Zool) predation ( frml)
    2 (daño) depredation ( frml)
    * * *
    1. [entre animales] hunting, preying
    2. [daño] depredation, pillaging
    * * *
    f depredation
    * * *
    saqueo: depredation, plunder

    Spanish-English dictionary > depredación

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  • PREYING — …   Useful english dictionary

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  • prey — I. noun (plural prey; also preys) Etymology: Middle English preie, from Anglo French, from Latin praeda; akin to Latin prehendere to grasp, seize more at get Date: 13th century 1. archaic spoil, booty 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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