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Despoliation

Despoliation Meaning & Definition
Despoliation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Despoliation?

[n] the act of stripping and taking by force

Synonyms | Synonyms for Despoliation: despoilation | despoilment | spoil | spoilation | spoliation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Despoliation: abomination | atrocity | bad | banditry | bane | befoulment | blight | bloodbath | blue ruin | breakup | brigandage | brigandism | carnage | consumption | corruption | crying evil | damage | damnation | decimation | defilement | depredation | desolation | despoiling | despoilment | destruction | detriment | devastation | direption | disintegration | disorganization | disruption | dissolution | evil | foraging | foray | freebooting | grievance | harm | havoc | hecatomb | holocaust | hurt | ill | infection | injury | looting | marauding | mischief | outrage | perdition | pillage | pillaging | plunder | plundering | poison | pollution | raid | raiding | ransacking | rape | rapine | ravage | ravagement | ravaging | ravishment | razzia | reiving | rifling | ruin | ruination | sack | sacking | shambles | slaughter | spoiling | spoliation | the worst | toxin | undoing | vandalism | venom | vexation | waste | woe | wrack | wrack and ruin | wreck | wrong

See Also | pillage | pillaging | plundering

Despoliation In Webster's Dictionary

\De*spo`li*a"tion\, n. [L. despoliatio. See {Despoil}.] A stripping or plundering; spoliation. --Bailey.

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