Despoliation

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  • noun. The act of despoiling or the condition of being despoiled.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of despoiling, stripping, or plundering.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
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  • noun. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of stripping and taking by force
    • Word Usage
    "By the time Katherine R. Tsiang visited the temple caves of Xiangtangshan in 1990, the sixth-century complex bore witness to both the Northern Qi's glorious sculpture and its irrevocable despoliation by looters and traders."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pillage  pillaging  plundering  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    boodle  cronyism  demagoguery  demagogy  dirtiness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abomination  atrocity  bad  banditry  bane  
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