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SPOLIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of stripping and taking by force
Synonyms:
despoilation; despoilment; despoliation; spoil; spoilation; spoliation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("spoliation" is a kind of...):
pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)
Derivation:
spoil (destroy and strip of its possession)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("spoliation" is a kind of...):
destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
spoil (alter from the original)
