despoilation

Definitions of despoilation
  1. noun
    the act of stripping and taking by force
    synonyms: despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation
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    type of:
    pillage, pillaging, plundering
    the act of stealing valuable things from a place
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