spoliation

Other forms of spoliation

plural

spoliations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spoliation

What does spoliation mean?

spoliation means "(law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spoliation?

spoliation has 5 syllables: spo-li-a-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for spoliation?

Close synonyms include spoil, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spoliation a common word?

spoliation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.