despoilment
- n the act of stripping and taking by force
- As he began to scratch at the bush-meat trade, to troll the markets, to visit the logging camps, he started to wonder if he was contributing to the continent's despoilment.
- Environmentalists see the discounts as a guarantee of despoilment and Clinton's act as political cowardice.
- By his simple act of conscience, Jeffords has saved the country from four (possibly eight!) years of compassionate conservatism and its attendant despoilment of our environment.