Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation
Definition: the act of stripping and taking by force
Similar words: plundering, pillage, pillaging
Definition: the act of stealing valuable things from a place
Usage: the plundering of the Parthenon; his plundering of the great authors
Synonyms: spoliation
Definition: (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
Similar words: devastation, destruction
Definition: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists