despoliation
- noun
- /dɪˌspoʊliˈeɪʃən/
:
despojo
- The despoliation of the rainforest for agriculture has led to significant biodiversity loss.
Examples
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Conceivably, much remains to be discovered about the shape of the ancient city and the specifics of its despoliation during the Middle Ages.
Academic text (2005) -
Such sufferers recognize a particular form of suffering associated with experiences and events that obstruct creativity and the emergence of life in the cosmos and in its creatures -- events of oppression and exploitation, events of violence and injustice, events of destruction and despoliation.
Academic text (2006) -
The monument represented Pete's protest against the despoliation of the desert.
Fiction book (1993) -
These texts offer two examples of despoliation of human rights and confinement, although the situations they describe are radically distinct.
Academic text (2017) -
Moreover, Boldt Phase II litigation for man-made despoliation of fish habitats was certainly a major concern.
Academic text (2018) -
This despoliation view of the Chinchero landscape contrasts sharply with the pilgrimage scene.
Academic text (2007) -
This ecology movement had an understated but obvious nationalist agenda: to counter Moscow's despoliation of Lithuania's environment.
Academic text (1990) -
Yet by adding images of despoliation and transformation to the traditional iconography of the Virgin of Montserrat, Chivantito invited the viewer to reflect on the cost of violent cultural change.
Academic text (2007) -
Environmentalists can operate at broad spatial and temporal scales, observing the effects of local activities on macro-level conditions such as global warming, acid rain formation, and global despoliation of the resource base.
Academic text (2005) -
The priest represents God before the "creature" and represents the "creature" before God, acting as an empathetic and compassionate mediator in reintegrating a world broken by environmental despoliation.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
4
9.8
Damage and stealing caused by a violent attack
3
9.1
The taking of private land by the government to use for a public project
1
9.9
Taking goods by force, often during war or disorder
Violent stealing and damage of things from a place
Taking things by force from a place, often during war
The forceful taking of things like money, land or trees that causes damage
The illegal taking of someone's land or property
Taking something away from the person who owns or uses it
Antonyms
How Violent
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Morphology
Etymology
Despoliation comes from de- ('remove') and spoil ('to strip or take away'), the same idea as the 'spoils of war'. So, despoliation means the violent taking or plundering of goods and resources.