- present participle of despoil.
despoiling
Example Sentences
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Plastic, along with other litter, is also despoiling the landscape and polluting our waterways.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Residents of Papua New Guinea have accused the mining company Rio Tinto of violating their human rights by despoiling the land where they live.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
This waste is clogging landfills, despoiling the oceans and harming wildlife.
From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2021
Using strong words like decay, despoiling, vanishing, and violated, Johnson connects his argument to emotions—mostly fear—the audience would feel about such destruction of nature and values.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
But in the background of all the conversations among the visitors to the island was indignation at the despoiling of the roads they had traveled.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
