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Predation

🔄 Synonyms of "Predation"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
depredationnoun	A raid or predatory attack.
preyingverb	(intransitive) To act as a predator.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Predation"

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Word	Definition
depredationnoun	A raid or predatory attack.
preyingverb	(intransitive) To act as a predator.
predatory	Living by preying on other living animals.
consumptionnoun	The act of eating, drinking or using.
preynoun	A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
dispossessionnoun	The act of dispossessing someone of something.
predatornoun	Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
grazingnoun	(countable, uncountable) The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.
herbivorynoun	(ecology) The consumption of living plant tissue by animals.
nestnoun	A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
predators	a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Nimród Antal, serving as the third film in the main series of the Predator franchise and its fifth film overall.
raidingnoun	The act of carrying out a raid.
huntingnoun	The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
maraudingnoun	raiding and pillaging
pillagenoun	(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
plundernoun	(transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
pursuitnoun	The act of pursuing.
ravagingnoun	The act by which something is ravaged.
spoliationnoun	(by extension) (law) (uncountable) The intentional destruction of, or tampering with, a document so as to impair its evidentiary value.
rapinenoun	The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage; plunder.