[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

despoliation \despo`lia"tion\, n. l. despoliatio. see
   despoil.
   a stripping or plundering; spoliation. --bailey.
   1913 webster
see also:
despoil 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

despoliation
     n : the act of stripping and taking by force syn: spoil, spoliation,
          spoilation, despoilation, despoilment
see also:
spoil spoliation spoilation despoilation despoilment 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

88 moby thesaurus words for "despoliation":
   abomination, atrocity, bad, banditry, bane, befoulment, blight,
   bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, carnage,
   consumption, corruption, crying evil, damage, damnation,
   decimation, defilement, depredation, desolation, despoiling,
   despoilment, destruction, detriment, devastation, direption,
   disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, evil,
   foraging, foray, freebooting, grievance, harm, havoc, hecatomb,
   holocaust, hurt, ill, infection, injury, looting, marauding,
   mischief, outrage, perdition, pillage, pillaging, plunder,
   plundering, poison, pollution, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape,
   rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving,
   rifling, ruin, ruination, sack, sacking, shambles, slaughter,
   spoiling, spoliation, the worst, toxin, undoing, vandalism, venom,
   vexation, waste, woe, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrong

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