Crossword-Solution: SPOLIATION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spoliation | v. t. | The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. |
| Spoliation | v. t. | Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea. |
| Spoliation | v. t. | The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title. |
| Spoliation | v. t. | A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court. |
| Spoliation | v. t. | Injury done to a document. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPOLIATION | anagram | POSITIONAL, SPOILATION |
We have 14 clues for the answer “SPOLIATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Seizure of a neutral ship in wartime | 1 answer |
| Taking by force | 6 answers |
| rapine | 7 answers |
| ravages | 8 answers |
| looting | 8 answers |
| withering | 10 answers |
| Vandalism | 13 answers |
| wear and tear | 16 answers |
| Plundering. | 27 answers |
| disruption | 43 answers |
| Wear | 54 answers |
| Sack | 54 answers |
| Havoc | 59 answers |
| Wreck | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with SPOLIATION (5)
Her pride was indeed brought low by despairing discoveries of her spoliation by marriage with a less pure nature than her own.
The mighty bridge, stretching along over our heads, had done its share in the slaughter and spoliation.
Mohammed Damoor had again gone forth into the market-place, and lifted up his voice and prophesied a second spoliation of the Israelites.
Now, under the new law, the expropriation of a debtor will be effected a hundred times more rapidly; then, also, spoliation will be a hundred times surer, and the free laborer will pass a hundred times sooner from his present condition to that of a serf attached to the soil.
That British property and interests were every day subjected to ruin and spoliation, and British subjects exposed to unheard-of vexations, without the slightest hope of redress being afforded, save recourse was had to force, the only argument to which the Moors were accessible.
Quotes with SPOLIATION (2)
If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1958).