despoiling

So you swing into action and start fighting back against those forces bent on despoiling your paradise.

At this moment he was in the act of despoiling both ancient and modern philosophy of all their wealth in order to assimilate it.

Merle glanced up to see him despoiling a bush that embowered one of the brown headstones and an all but obliterated mound.

In 1643 one John Drugh was indicted for this despoiling of corpses for some such purpose.

It arrived no later than the second evening after the despoiling.

To the latter the forest was as something sacred, a spot where nature should have her will and not despoiling man.