'despoliation' definitions:
Definition of 'despoliation'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation]
Definition of 'despoliation'
From: GCIDE
- despoliation \de*spo`li*a"tion\, n. [L. despoliatio. See Despoil.] A stripping or plundering; spoliation. --Bailey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'despoliation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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