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Noun despoliation has 1 sense

• despoliation(n = noun.act) despoilation, despoilment, spoil, spoilation, spoliation - the act of stripping and taking by force; Array
is a kind of pillage, pillaging, plundering
Derived forms verb despoil₂, verb despoil₁

THESAURUS

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

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