Definitions for despoliation

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despoliation de·spo·li·a·tion

Spelling: [dih-spoh-lee-ey-shuh n]

IPA: /dɪˌspoʊ liˈeɪ ʃən/

Despoliation is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1884 anagrams from letters in despoliation (adeiilnoopst).

Definitions for despoliation

noun

1. the act of plundering.
2. the fact or circumstance of being plundered.

Origin of despoliation

1650-60; Late Latin dēspoliātiōn- (stem of dēspoliātiō), equivalent to Latin dēspoliāt(us) (past participle of dēspoliāre; see despoil) + -iōn-

Examples for despoliation

In the carvings he is really hanged, and the hangsmen are the geese of his despoliation.

So that by early education I was taught to think that the despoliation of the public, in certain ways, was a legitimate industry.

Besides this was the home of a prominent loyalist, protected from despoliation by high authority.

Day and night the game went on without abatement, the game of despoliation.

Then came war, despoliation, and a thrilling period of wandering.

And this was a Dawson dance-hall, the trump card in the nightly game of despoliation.

Thus the origin of the Yaquis' struggle—a real struggle for life—was a despoliation perpetrated by the white people.

The ensanguined bones, with some fragments of the cartilage still adhering to them, showed that the despoliation had been recent.

Antoine de Vergy had done the work of despoliation thoroughly.

At no period was this despoliation more rife than in the time of which we write.