spoilation

It was no great consolation to know, that much of that spoilation had been done by Mexicans themselves—the patrolled prisoners, who had gone up the road before us.

Forgotten in the midst of this excitement, I sat alone and watched the work of spoilation.

He said that a rapid course of spoilation was going on in the outskirts of the forest, and the effect of it would soon be felt in the flow of the Hudson.

The Swamp Land Act of the same date, owing to its loose and unguarded provisions and shameful mal-administration, has been still more fruitful of wide-spread spoilation and plunder.

The national pride, if not the material interests involved, would not permit the government to submit to such destruction or spoilation without making every possible effort to prevent it.