- despoliation
- n1. pillage, plunder, plundering, plunderage, rapine, depredation, spoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin; ravaging, pillaging, harrying, marauding, sacking, Rare. sackage; raid, foray, razzia, inroad; foraging, looting, ravishment, seizure, grab, rape.2. devastation, ravage, waste, desolation, destruction, ruin, havoc, damage, wreckage; burning, razing, leveling, demolishing; desecration, defilement, outrage, violation, vandalism; injury, harm, hurt, impairment, loss, scathe; collapse, breakdown, downfall.3. brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering; robbery, theft, thievery, stealing.4. dispossession, deprivation, deprival, divestiture, bereavement, Law. disseizin; confiscation, appropriation, expropriation
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.