despoiled

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Metaphors may have no place at a concentration camp, but it’s hard to look at this beautiful enclosed space and not see it, perversely, as the most despoiled of Edens.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Too much of Seattle has been despoiled by the greed and power of developers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022

They despoiled the building with their urine and feces.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

The natural environment with which Native Americans had established a harmonious and symbiotic relationship, was similarly despoiled by the twin logic of expropriation and colonization that spread under the logic of manifest destiny.

From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2021

For between him and her there stood more than her father's aversion, more than the doubt of her affection, more than the unlucky borough, of which he had despoiled Sir Robert.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.