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Meaning of Predation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The preying of one animal on others.
  2. The action of attacking or plundering.

Equivalents

العربية السلب
Deutsch Jagd Prädation Raub
Español predación
Suomi saalistus
Français prédation
Bahasa Indonesia pemangsaan
日本語 捕食
ქართული ნადირობა
한국어 포식
Bahasa Melayu pemangsaan
Nederlands predatie
Português predação predatismo
Svenska rov

Examples

“[…]this priest roade in his goune of velvet, with a greate trayne, and was received into every Religion with Procession, as though the legate had bene there, and toke such greate sommes for his visitacion, that the religious sore were greved, and murmured much against it, and in especiall, for they were charged with greate sommes of money to the kyng, and now thys sodayn visitacion or predacion, cleane shaved them.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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