Meanings of despoilment in English

He saw the destroyer of their lives, a devil who had worked subtly for his despoilment.

Delacroix's picture portrays a scene in this despoilment.

Gunesekera's fiction often touches on loss, flight, memory, the eroding passage of time and the despoilment of ostensible paradises.

Then, on April 12, 1204, the invaders secured it again, and subjected it to a despoilment without parallel.

His victim dragged herself back to her mother's door, and, half dead with grief and fright, related the awful story of her despoilment.

But the high sense of justice which has always distinguished the United States in her public policies would not permit the despoilment of Mexico.