The act of stripping and taking by force.
1 Without this natural protection it became a land subject to constant attack and despoliation .
2 And this was a Dawson dance-hall, the trump card in the nightly game of despoliation .
3 It is entirely out of the track of both armies, and has completely escaped despoliation .
4 This grand achievement led to the opening of a splendid continent, teeming with riches, for Spanish adventure and despoliation .
5 What apostleship of despoliation !
6 Today, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, dismayed by the random despoliation of precious landscape, launches a Save Our Countryside charter.
7 On the other side of the highway the woods resumed again, but the few cars traveling the highway were a despoliation .
8 The signs of our despoliation of the natural world have been evident at least since the extinction of the dodo in 1681.
9 So that by early education I was taught to think that the despoliation of the public, in certain ways, was a legitimate industry.
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