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Meanings of spoil in English
Portuguese
furto Catalan
despullament The act of stripping and taking by force.
Synonyms
Examples for "spoliation"
Examples for "spoliation"
1
The spoliation will increase the distress; the distress will produce fresh spoliation.
2
The spoliation of Jerusalem by Titus had taken place in A.D. 70.
3
The first which presents itself is spoliation through the avenue of superstition.
4
All the causes which had produced the first spoliation would still operate.
5
I left the millions of Italy, and I find spoliation and penury.
1
Without this natural protection it became a land subject to constant attack and despoliation.
2
And this was a Dawson dance-hall, the trump card in the nightly game of despoliation.
3
It is entirely out of the track of both armies, and has completely escaped despoliation.
4
This grand achievement led to the opening of a splendid continent, teeming with riches, for Spanish adventure and despoliation.
5
What apostleship of despoliation!
1
He saw the destroyer of their lives, a devil who had worked subtly for his despoilment.
2
Delacroix's picture portrays a scene in this despoilment.
3
Gunesekera's fiction often touches on loss, flight, memory, the eroding passage of time and the despoilment of ostensible paradises.
4
Then, on April 12, 1204, the invaders secured it again, and subjected it to a despoilment without parallel.
5
His victim dragged herself back to her mother's door, and, half dead with grief and fright, related the awful story of her despoilment.
1
The book laments the despoilation of the sea by pollution and overfishing.
2
Our twenty cities all have charters that protect us from complete despoilation.
3
Northland MP Winston Peters told Morning Report that the practices were creating environmental despoilation.
4
The international community is used to worrying about the despoilation of the Amazon jungle by loggers.
5
Their activities fulfil a pattern of despoilation that began with the Belgian King Leopold's brutal Congo Free State, set up in 1885.
1
At the beginning of the persecution they were passive, meekly submitting to reproach, spoilation, imprisonment, and death, for Christ's sake.
2
The claims of our citizens against Sweden, Denmark and Brazil, for spoilations of commerce, were satisfactorily consummated.
3
"Civilization is a development through blood and spoilation," the architect remarked.
4
Mr. Alexander C. M. Pennington, as chairman of that committee, handed me the voluminous papers in reference to the French Spoilation Claims.
Usage of spoil in English
1
However, I also strongly believe in the right to spoil your vote.
2
I wanted to spoil the party by a long way, Abbott said.
3
No way was he going to let a woman spoil the moment.
4
We should not interfere in case we spoil an official criminal investigation.
5
The only result will be to spoil the control of the aeroplane.
6
Once people turn up, they are fully entitled to spoil their vote.
7
And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
8
Cut corn in the decrease of the moon, else it will spoil.
9
Surely, wife, you would not wish to spoil that moment for him?
10
I don't want to spoil it for people like my family members.
11
If you feel the need to go out and spoil yourself, fine.
12
I'd never let the best friend in the world spoil my wife.
13
It won't spoil your appreciation of what follows-atleast, I hope not.
14
Many hands make light work but too many cooks spoil the broth.
15
In France, they spoil us; but that was no business of mine.
16
It would spoil half the concert; but that did not matter-nothingmattered.
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Portuguese
Catalan
Spoil through the time
Spoil across language varieties
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South Africa
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