The act of taking illegitimatly possession of something that belongs to others.
The act of stripping and taking by force.
1 He saw the destroyer of their lives, a devil who had worked subtly for his despoilment .
2 Delacroix's picture portrays a scene in this despoilment .
3 Gunesekera's fiction often touches on loss, flight, memory, the eroding passage of time and the despoilment of ostensible paradises.
4 Then, on April 12, 1204, the invaders secured it again, and subjected it to a despoilment without parallel.
5 His victim dragged herself back to her mother's door, and, half dead with grief and fright, related the awful story of her despoilment .
6 But the high sense of justice which has always distinguished the United States in her public policies would not permit the despoilment of Mexico.
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