Spoliate

[spәulieit]

Definition

(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Rob, plunder, spoil.

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Definition

v.t. to spoil to plunder to pillage.—v.i. to practise robbery.—ns. Spō′liary the place in a Roman amphitheatre where the bodies of slaughtered gladiators were dragged to be stripped; Spoliā′tion act of spoiling: robbery.—adj. Spō′liātive serving to take away or diminish.—n. Spō′liātor one who spoliates.—adj. Spō′liātory tending to spoil: destructive.—n. Spō′lium the property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.

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