despoliation

Noun

Meaning

A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spoil spoliation despoilment spoilation despoilation blight damage destruction waste rape ruin wreck robbery piracy sack
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Antonyms

constitution development support building production beginning
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Hypernyms

plundering pillage pillaging

Related terms

despoil

Phrases with the word

environmental despoliation

Anagrams

depositional despoilation

Examples

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. I regard the present conservation movement as the embryo of such an affirmation. Aldo Leopold

Close letter words and terms

despoiler despoilment Despoina despond despondence despondency