despoliation
71spoliation — noun a) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. b) Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea. See Also: despoil, despolation, spoil, spoliate,… …
72despoil — verb /dɪˈspɔɪl/ a) To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage. To dreamers in the West, Tibet is a Shangri La despoiled by Chinese ruthlessness and rapacity. b) …
73despoilment — noun The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation. On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good …
74spoliation — spo·li·a·tion /ˌspō lē ā shən/ n 1: the destruction, alteration, or mutilation of evidence esp. by a party for whom the evidence is damaging 2: alteration or mutilation of an instrument (as a will) by one who is not a party to the instrument… …
75Cyril Gwynn — The Gower Yarns of Cyril Gwynn , front cover, with a portrait of Phil Tanner, another famous Gower yarn teller Cyril Gwynn (1897–1988) was a British poet, from Gower, in the City and County of Swansea. He was known as the Bard of Gower, and… …
76pillage — pil·lage / pi lij/ vb pil·laged, pil·lag·ing vt: to loot or plunder esp. in war vi: to take booty pillage n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
77abomination — Synonyms and related words: Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, allergy, anathema, annoyance, antagonism, anti Semitism, antipathy, atrocity, aversion, bad, bane, befoulment, besmirchment, bete noire, bigotry, blight, bogey, bugaboo, bugbear,… …
78atrocity — Synonyms and related words: abomination, abuse, acuteness, affront, animality, aspersion, atrociousness, awfulness, bad, bane, banefulness, barbarity, befoulment, blight, bloodlust, breach, brickbat, brutality, contempt, contumely, corruption,… …
79bad — Synonyms and related words: OK, abhorrent, abominable, abomination, ace high, ailing, alarming, amiss, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, bad for, bad smelling, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, bang up, barfy, base, befoulment, below par,… …
80banditry — Synonyms and related words: armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, bank robbery, brigandage, brigandism, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, extortion, foraging, foray,… …
