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Synonyms for predation
prɪˈdeɪ ʃənpre·da·tion

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  1. depredation, predationnoun

    an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

    Synonyms:
    ravage, depredation

  2. predationnoun

    the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey

    Synonyms:
    depredation

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  1. List of paraphrases for "predation":

    predators, predator, predatory, herbivory

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  1. Democratic Representative Katie Hill:

    I'm leaving because of a misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality, and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching, yet a man who brags about his sexual predation ... sits in the highest office of the land.

  2. Alyse Maksimoski:

    It’s used by Muslim women so they can remove their hijabs. It’s used by sexual assault survivors so they can distance themselves from their attacker, it’s used by a vast majority on the campus as a safe space from predation and harassment.

  3. Curry Rogers:

    Precocial young can avoid predation on their own, and there is a much smaller chance of the entire brood succumbing to predation at once.

  4. Mark Pearson:

    Often the one at foot will hop away because it’s terrified as its mother has just been shot. Now the chances of the shooter catching that little joey and killing it is slim, so it dies from predation, starvation and exposure.

  5. John Vucetich:

    But parasites are at least as important as predation, to be a parasite is an easy way to make a living in the natural world.


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