What is "spoliation" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does spoliation mean in English? Meaning of spoliation definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "spoliation" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "spoliation": (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence

Noun

  • Meaning: (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
  • Synonyms: spoliation
  • Hypernyms: destruction devastation
  • Meaning of "spoliation": the act of stripping and taking by force

    Noun

  • Meaning: the act of stripping and taking by force
  • Synonyms: despoilation despoilment despoliation spoil spoilation spoliation
  • Hypernyms: pillage pillaging plundering
  • Synonyms:

    contagion, disease, epidemic, infection, corruption, pollution, pestilence, impurity, decay, taint, plague, filth, foulness, defilement, poisoning, dirtying, rottenness, radioactivation, desecration, theft, rapine, pillage, desolation, stealing, crime, plunder, robbery, burglary, wasting, sacking, ransacking, ravaging, despoiling, laying waste, marauding, confusion, desolation, ruin, havoc, ruination, loss, pillage, plunder, depredation, waste, demolition, ravages, defoliation, abuse, infection, corruption, deterioration, desecration, defilement, taint, profanation, misuse, decomposition, adulteration, blight, uncleanness, foulness, impairment, impurity, dirtying, rottenness, soiling, vitiation, besmearing, besmirching, fouling, greenhouse effect, polluting, tainting, abduction, maltreatment, abuse, violation, despoliation, rapine, pillage, plunder, depredation, molestation, plundering, despoilment, criminal attack, forcible violation, statutory offense, invasion, assault, mistreatment, pollution, destruction, profanation, desecration, devastation, blasphemy, defacement, ruin, rapine, dishonor, degradation, sacrilege, debasement, outrage, ravishment, defacing,

    Antonyms:

    sterility, cleanliness, purification, cleaning, cure, sterilization, healing, boon, goodness, miracle, construction, wonder, building, construction, creation, sterility, cleanliness, purification, building, piety, reverence, obedience, honor, construction, creation, observance,

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