Despoilment
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
Spoil
Part of speech: noun
Definition: (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil.To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
Example sentence: Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.