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Answer for the clue "The act of stripping and taking by force ", 12 letters:
despoliation

Word definitions for despoliation in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
despoliation \de*spo`li*a"tion\, n. [L. despoliatio. See Despoil .] A stripping or plundering; spoliation. --Bailey.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil , spoliation , spoilation , despoilation , despoilment ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Late Latin despoliationem (nominative despoliatio ), noun of action from Latin despoliatus , past participle of despoliare (see despoil ).

Usage examples of despoliation.

Their existence as a movement depends upon industrialization, the same industrialization that they must aggressively condemn as leading to the despoliation of Gaia.

Kosmos, the collapse of the Kosmos, and the consequent despoliation of Gaia precisely in the incapacity to engage the interior processes of transformation upon which reflection itself depends in the first place, and upon which mutual agreement and mutual accord, which alone will save Gaia, must proceed.

Now I find that it is in the process of despoliation by these same Howling Bounders.