Noun: spoliation ,spow-li'ey-shun
- The act of stripping and taking by force
"The spoliation of the conquered territories left them impoverished";
- spoil [archaic], spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
- (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
"The lawyer was accused of spoliation for shredding key documents"
Derived forms: spoliations
Type of: destruction, devastation, pillage, pillaging, plundering
Encyclopedia: Spoliation