spoliation
Noun
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Noun
spoliation
- (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery
- Synonyms: deprivation, despoliation
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1:
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
- Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
- (legal) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.
- Portuguese: espoliação
- Spanish: despojo, expoliación
- German: Beweisvereitelung
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