spoliate

English

Etymology

From Latin spoliātus, perfect passive participle of spoliō (“plunder, pillage, rob”).

Verb

spoliate (third-person singular simple present spoliates, present participle spoliating, simple past and past participle spoliated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To plunder

   Synonyms: pillage, despoil, rob

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in robbery; to plunder.

Quotations

• 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil; or, The Two Nations

  But the other great whig families who had obtained this honour, and who had done something more for it than spoliate their church and betray their king, set up their backs against this claim of the Egremonts.

Translations

To engage in robbery; to plunder

• Bulgarian: ограбвам (bg) (ograbvam), плячкосвам (bg) (pljačkosvam)
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References

• “spoliate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “spoliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lipoates

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

spoliate

1. inflection of spoliare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

spoliate f pl

1. feminine plural of spoliato

Anagrams

• epistola, ospitale, pelosità, petalosi, pisolate

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) spoliāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of spoliō