Meanings of despoliation in English

Without this natural protection it became a land subject to constant attack and despoliation.

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

It is entirely out of the track of both armies, and has completely escaped despoliation.

This grand achievement led to the opening of a splendid continent, teeming with riches, for Spanish adventure and despoliation.

What apostleship of despoliation!

Today, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, dismayed by the random despoliation of precious landscape, launches a Save Our Countryside charter.

On the other side of the highway the woods resumed again, but the few cars traveling the highway were a despoliation.

The signs of our despoliation of the natural world have been evident at least since the extinction of the dodo in 1681.

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