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Spoliate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPOLIATE, v.t. [L.] To plunder; to pillage.
SPOLIATE, v.i. To practice plunder; to commit robbery. In time of war, rapacious men are let loose to spoliate on commerce.

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Latin spoliatus, past participle of spoliare Date: circa 1727 despoil • spoliator noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spoliate Spo"li*ate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Spoliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Spoliating.] [L. spoliatus, p. p. of spoliare spoil. See Spoil, v. t.] To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Rob, plunder, spoil, despoil, destroy, pillage.

Moby Thesaurus

depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gut, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, rifle, sack, spoil, sweep, waste