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DESPOLIATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does despoliation mean?
• DESPOLIATION (noun)
The noun DESPOLIATION has 1 sense:
1. the act of stripping and taking by force
Familiarity information: DESPOLIATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of stripping and taking by force
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
despoilation; despoilment; despoliation; spoil; spoilation; spoliation
Hypernyms ("despoliation" is a kind of...):
pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)
Derivation:
despoil (destroy and strip of its possession)
despoil (steal goods; take as spoils)
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