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Noun: spoliation  ,spow-li'ey-shun
  1. The act of stripping and taking by force
    "The spoliation of the conquered territories left them impoverished";
    - spoil [archaic], spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
     
  2. (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