The act of stripping and taking by force.
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Examples for "spoil "
Examples for "spoil "
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.
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 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.
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 !
6 Today, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, dismayed by the random despoliation of precious landscape, launches a Save Our Countryside charter.
7 On the other side of the highway the woods resumed again, but the few cars traveling the highway were a despoliation .
8 The signs of our despoliation of the natural world have been evident at least since the extinction of the dodo in 1681.
9 So that by early education I was taught to think that the despoliation of the public, in certain ways, was a legitimate industry.
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