despoilment

noun

Definition of despoilmentnext
as in robbery

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  1. robbery
  2. despoliation
  3. plunder
Noun
  • Also Thursday, Oklahoma conducted that state's first execution of the year, putting to death an Arkansan for a random home-invasion robbery that left a woman dead.
    — arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Hundreds of thousands of people have returned to their homes in Central Sudan, though late on Wednesday activists in Omdurman warned that some soldiers have engaged in robbery.
    — Reuters, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of robbery
Noun
  • For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
Definition of despoliation
Noun
  • While in Africa, Suchet visits Kimberley, the site of diamond mines (and where Rhodes founded the De Beers diamond company), and the plunder and extraction are so clear.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The revisionists aim to create an environment primed for expansion and plunder.
    — HAL BRANDS, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of plunder
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