spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
(noun) the act of stripping and taking by force
spoliation
(noun) (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)
(archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery
Synonyms: deprivation, despoliation
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.
• isopointal, positional
Source: Wiktionary
Spo`li*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. spoliatio; cf. F. spoliation. See Spoil, v. t.]
1. The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. Sir G. C. Lewis.
2. Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
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.
4. (Law)
Definition: Injury done to a document.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
