(n.) The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.

banditry bloodbath blue ruin breakup brigandage brigandism carnage consumption damnation decimation desolation despoiling despoilment despoliation destruction devastation direption disintegration disorganization disruption dissolution foraging foray freebooting havoc hecatomb holocaust laying waste looting marauding perdition pillage pillaging plunder plundering raid raiding ransacking rape rapine ravage ravagement ravages ravaging ravishment razzia reiving rifling robbery ruin ruination sack sacking shambles slaughter spoiling spoliation undoing vandalism waste wrack wrack and ruin wreck