English language
Toggle Transcript
despoliation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | despoilation, despoilment, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
| Type of | pillage, pillaging, plundering |
| Derivation | despoil |
Examples of despoliation
despoliation
Yet attempts to halt the despoliation have been, in most cases, limited and local.
From the time.com
Overview is designed to deal with no less a problem than man's despoliation of the earth.
From the time.com
In France many churches and cathedrals suffered despoliation during the French Revolution.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It's environmental despoliation Keanu Reeves, aka Klaatu 2.0, wants to halt this time around.
From the thenewstribune.com
Moreover, forbidding drilling there does not prevent despoliation.
From the washingtonpost.com
Here, in this polluted and overfished ocean, is our despoliation of the natural world in microcosm.
From the guardian.co.uk
I am, of course, talking of the despoliation of the custard cream and its biscuit barrel mate, the bourbon.
From the independent.co.uk
He hires an environmentalist to fight the despoliation.
From the time.com
They have also been marked by one pessimistic report after another on man's despoliation of his home planet.
From the time.com
- Spoil: the act of stripping and taking by force
- A stripping or plundering; spoliation
