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What does despoliation mean?

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  1. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
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International humanitarian law prohibits the despoliation and mutilation of the dead.
This insurance is necessary in the event of despoliation or loss on their part.
The more recent the despoliation and usurpation, the more strongly felt was the injustice.
In the carvings he is really hanged, and the hangsmen are the geese of his despoliation.
So that by early education I was taught to think that the despoliation of the public, in certain ways, was a legitimate industry.
The ensanguined bones, with some fragments of the cartilage still adhering to them, showed that the despoliation had been recent.

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