spoliate

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Judge Whyte found Rambus did not spoliate evidence as Hynix had alleged, and a jury found Rambus patents valid and infringed by Hynix.

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  1. To plunder; pillage; despoil. The other great Whig families, … who had done something more for it than spoliate their church and betray their king. Disraeli, Sybil, i. 3.
  2. To engage in robbery; plunder.

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  1. from Latin spoliatus, past participle of spoliare, spoil: see spoil, v.
 

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