despoilment
- a word derived from despoil.
Example Sentences
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The 1971 amendment mandates that New Mexico prevent the despoilment of air, water and other natural resources.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
Hansen believes that wastefulness and despoilment sped the collapse of the vast city-states likely controlled by El Mirador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Historians François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux unpick the broader social, economic and political factors underpinning our despoilment of the environment in their altogether more comprehensive history of pollution, The Contamination of the Earth.
From Nature ● Aug. 30, 2020
Any accident risks even worse despoilment if ships leak oil, gas, chemicals or other substances.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2017
So far there has been no act of wanton despoilment, injury or insult; let none ever be charged to an American soldier.
From The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles by Reidy, John J.
