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What is the noun for despoiling?

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despoilment
  1. The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
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    1. “How could it defend itself against further despoilment by foreigners?”
      “Historically, the kind of drastic accumulation I encountered is a brand-new kind of despoilment.”
      “So what's this woefully insufficient tribute come to, such that Mr Saverin may be so bitterly denounced for exploitation and despoilment?”
despoiler
  1. One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.
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    1. “I feel badly let down by the council who should be the guardians of an important conservation area, not its despoiler.”
      “The violent despoiler of other men's goods, enflamed with covetousness, surely resembles a wolf.”
      “On a morning the despoiler finds on his door two lines pinned with a dagger and he restitutes ill-gotten gains at once.”
despoliation
  1. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
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    1. “The despoliation of the Galician coastline raises fundamental issues which must be urgently addressed.”
      “Environmentalists see these steps as safeguards against further despoliation by belching factories and power plants.”
      “International humanitarian law prohibits the despoliation and mutilation of the dead.”
despoil
  1. (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.
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despoilments
despoilers
  1. plural of despoiler
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    1. “The prelate indicated that even his own guileless grandchildren may become despoilers of the planet unless today's adults act responsibly.”
      “The city is being given to the despoilers, speculators, land mafia and vandals.”
      “The charge that the rich are the despoilers, the exhausters, the expropriators of the planet's biological wealth is simply false.”
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