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Despoliation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of despoiling or the condition of being despoiled.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of despoiling, stripping, or plundering.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. 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

pillaging plundering pillage

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

spoliation

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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