Usually means: Plundering or stripping of resources.
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  1. despoliation: Merriam-Webster
  2. despoliation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despoliation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. despoliation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. despoliation: Vocabulary.com
  6. despoliation: Wordnik
  7. despoliation: Wiktionary
  8. despoliation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. despoliation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. despoliation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Despoliation, despoliation: Dictionary.com
  12. Despoliation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. despoliation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. despoliation: Rhymezone
  15. Despoliation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. despoliation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. despoliation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. despoliation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. despoliation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. despoliation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. despoliation: Legal dictionary

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  1. despoliation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (despoliation)

▸ noun:  A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

Similar:
despoilment, spoilation, spoil, spoliation, despoilation, direption, deplumation, stripping, displenishment, disappropriation, more...

Opposite:
preservation, conservation, protection, restoration

Adjectives:
environmental, further, such, ecological, systematic, wholesale, human, ruthless, general, continued, industrial

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Similar:
despoilment, spoilation, spoil, spoliation, despoilation, direption, deplumation, stripping, displenishment, disappropriation, more...

Opposite:
preservation, conservation, protection, restoration

Adjectives:
environmental, further, such, ecological, systematic, wholesale, human, ruthless, general, continued, industrial



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