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  • 91waste — Synonyms and related words: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abate, ablate, ablation, absorption, acarpous, afterglow, afterimage, arid, assimilation, atrophy, attenuate, attrition, back, back of beyond, back country, backwood, backwoods,… …

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  • 92wrack — Synonyms and related words: algae, autophyte, bean, bloodbath, blue ruin, bracken, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin, brown algae, carnage, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave in, climber, collapse, condemn, conferva, confervoid,… …

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  • 93wrack and ruin — Synonyms and related words: bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, carnage, consumption, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, havoc …

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  • 94wreck — Synonyms and related words: accident, assault, atomize, attack, auto, autocar, automobile, bankrupt, barbarize, batter, beach, blight, bloodbath, blow, blue ruin, boat, botch, break to pieces, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin,… …

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  • 95Last of the Moccasins — by Charles Plymell (1971)    First published in 1971 by City Lights Books, Last of the Moccasins is an impressionistic novel which chronicles charles plymell’s experiences in and out of San Francisco in the early 1960s when the “Wichita Vortex”… …

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  • 96despoil — [dɪ spɔɪl] verb steal valuable or attractive possessions from (a place). Derivatives despoiler noun despoilment noun despoliation dɪˌspəʊlɪ eɪʃ(ə)n noun Origin ME: from OFr. despoillier, from L. despoliare rob, plunder (from spolia spoil ) …

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  • 97robbery — n. Depredation, peculation, theft, larceny, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, plundering, pillage, freebooting, piracy …

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  • 98ravage — I. v. a. Ruin, spoil, waste, devastate, destroy, despoil, sack, ransack, desolate, pillage, plunder, strip, lay waste, consume. II. n. Ruin, waste, spoil, pillage, plunder, rapine, desolation, destruction, devastation, havoc, despoilment …

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  • 99sack — I. n. 1. Bag, pouch. 2. Spoliation, destruction, desolation, devastation, havoc, waste, ravage, sackage, despoilment. 3. Booty, spoil, plunder. 4. Sherry, sherry wine. II. v. a. Ravage, despoil, devastate, spoil, plunder, pillage, take by storm …

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  • 100depredation — n 1. plunder, plundering, plunderage, rapine, pillage, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin; preying upon, ravaging, ravage, harrying, marauding, Archaic. maraud, sacking, Rare. sackage; laying waste, devastation …

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