Definition of "despoiling" [despoiling]

• Present participle of despoil. (verb)

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• "Peter Drucker called this vested interest in despoiling employees an "unforgivable social crime" on the part of America's management class."
• "Unfortunately, however, nations do not choose to engage in despoiling others, when the objective is strong and able to defend itself, but rather delays until the victim is under a handicap and certain to be more or less easily subjugated."
• "Stronger, braver, and craftier than his brothers, he cherished the idea of despoiling them and his sisters of their possessions, and becoming the sole successor of his father."