'Spoliation' definitions:
Definition of 'spoliation'
From: WordNet
noun
(law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
noun
The act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation]
Definition of 'Spoliation'
From: GCIDE
- Spoliation \Spo`li*a"tion\ (sp[=o]"l[i^]*[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. spoliatio: cf. F. spoliation. See Spoil, v. t.]
- 1. The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. [1913 Webster]
- Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. --Sir G. C. Lewis. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Eccl. Law) (a) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title. --Blackstone. (b) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) Injury done to a document. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spoliation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- banditry,
- bereavement,
- bloodbath,
- blue ruin,
- breakup,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- carnage,
- consumption,
- cost,
- damage,
- damnation,
- dead loss,
- debit,
- decimation,
- denial,
- denudation,
- depredation,
- deprivation,
- desolation,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- devastation,
- direption,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- dispossession,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- divestment,
- expense,
- foraging,
- foray,
- forfeit,
- forfeiture,
- freebooting,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- injury,
- looting,
- loser,
- losing,
- losing streak,
- loss,
- marauding,
- perdition,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- privation,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransacking,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reiving,
- rifling,
- robbery,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- sack,
- sacking,
- sacrifice,
- shambles,
- slaughter,
- spoiling,
- stripping,
- taking away,
- total loss,
- undoing,
- vandalism,
- waste,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck