SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: NOUN
- The act of plundering, pillaging, or despoiling; the act of spoliation; pillage; robbery.
- Arms and armor stripped from a defeated enemy; the plunder taken from an enemy in war; booty; loot; hence, that which is seized or falls to one after any struggle; specifically, in recent use, the patronage and emoluments of office, considered as a reward for zeal or service rendered in a struggle of parties: frequently in the plural: as, the spoils of capture; to the victor belong the spoils; the spoils of office; party spoils.
- Injury; damage; waste; havoc; destruction.
- Refuse material removed from an excavation.
- An object of plunder; prey.
- Incidental benefits reaped by a winner, especially political patronage enjoyed by a successful party or candidate.
- Goods or property seized from a victim after a conflict, especially after a military victory.
- (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
- The act of stripping and taking by force
- The act of plundering; spoliation.
- Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.
- Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- The theory or practice of regarding public offices and their emoluments as so much plunder to be distributed among their active partisans by those who are chosen to responsible offices of administration.
- A bank formed by the earth taken from an excavation, as of a canal.
- Corruption; cause of corruption.
- The act or practice of plundering; robbery; waste.
- That which is gained by strength or effort.
- Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural.
- Waste material, as that obtained in mining, quarrying, excavating canals, making railway cuttings, etc. Compare spoil-bank.
- The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
- In spoil-five, a drawn game.
- Synonyms Plunder, Booty, etc. See pillage, n.
- An object of pillage or spoliation; a thing to be preyed upon; a prey.
- That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
- The act of despoiling, stripping, or plundering.
- The act of despoiling or the condition of being despoiled.
- The act of stripping and taking by force
- A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: VERB
- To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
- Become unfit for consumption or use
- Treat with excessive indulgence
- Make imperfect
- Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- Alter from the original
- Have a strong desire or urge to do something
- Destroy and strip of its possession
- Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
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SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To impair or destroy the value or quality of; ruin.
- To harm the character of (a child) by overindulgence or leniency. : pamper.
- To plunder; despoil.
- To take by force.
- To become unfit for use or consumption, as from decay. Used especially of perishables, such as food. : decay.
- To practice plunder or robbery.
- To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay.
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SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken.
- To seize by violence; to take by force; to plunder.
- To cause to decay and perish; to corrupt; to vitiate; to mar.
- To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy
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SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To decay; become tainted or unsavory; lose freshness: as, fruit and fish soon spoil in warm weather.
- To engage in plunder and robbery; pillage; rob.
- To cut up; carve: as, to spoil a hen.
- To injure, vitiate, or impair in any way; especially, as applied to persons, to vitiate or impair in character or disposition; render less filial, obedient, affectionate, mannerly, modest, contented, or the like: as, to spare the rod and spoil the child; to spoil one with flattery.
- To strip with violence; rob; pillage; plunder; despoil: with of before the thing taken.
- To seize or take by force; carry off as booty.
- To destroy; ruin; injure; mar; impair; render useless, or less valuable, potent, or the like; seriously impair the quality, value, soundness, beauty, usefulness, pleasantness, etc., of: as, to spoil a thing in the making; to spoil one's chances of promotion; to spoil the fun.
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SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: RELATED WORDS
- Deflower, Coddle, Mollycoddle, Foil, Bollix, Mishandle, Botch, Indulge, Pamper, Blow, Impair, Vitiate, Thwart, Frustrate, Mar
- Exploitation, Denudation, Immiseration, Brigandage, Ruination, Desolation, Destruction, Dispossession, Pauperization, Impoverishment, Rapine, Spoilation, Despoilment, Spoil, Spoliation
SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Cosset, Deflower, Coddle, Mollycoddle, Foil, Bollix, Mishandle, Botch, Pamper, Blow, Impair, Vitiate, Thwart, Frustrate, Mar
- Abasement, Improvidence, Degradation, Rapacity, Rapaciousness, Exploitation, Immiseration, Brigandage, Ruination, Desolation, Dispossession, Pauperization, Rapine, Spoil, Spoliation
SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
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- Prior to excavation and placement of spoil, existing vegetation in construction areas would be cleared and grubbed and buried in spoil disposal areas.
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- They spoil their children and then send them to the school to spoil it.
- Maintenance dredging where the spoil is deposited in a spoil area authorized by all applicable state and federal regulatory agenciesh.
- Spoil Disposal The extensive drilling, blasting, and excavation, anticipated during project construction, would produce significant amounts of spoil.
- Spoil Side Spoil is the term used for excavated soil.
- Dredged spoil will be trucked to suitable spoil site.
- The despoliation of the environment is arguably the gravest of all the problems we are going to hand on to our children and grandchildren.
- Even for climate sceptics, reducing land and water despoliation by mining and air pollution from carbon emissions should be a no regrets measure.
- Crime, poverty, prejudice and discrimination, pollution and environmental despoliation, drug abuse, mental illness and others.
- Faculty graduate students into the scientific concerns, but become when they the profligate despoliation.
- Jesus died fully naked, the evidence favours a complete despoliation during the crucifixion.
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SPOIL vs DESPOLIATION: QUESTIONS
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- Does environmental despoliation threaten food security in Nigeria's Niger Delta?
- Which is the best dictionary definition of despoliation?