Synonyms:
depredation, predation
Meaning: an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
Usage examples
It was the instrument of universal death--the uranium release of untold forces of cataclysmic depredation.
Black Donald is the chief of a band of ruthless desperadoes that infest these mountain roads, robbing mail coaches, stealing negroes, breaking into houses and committing every sort of depredation.