spoliate
verb (used with or without object)
to plunder, rob, or ruin.
spoliator
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a word derived from
spoliate.
Example Sentences
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In one vignette after another, this insouciant spoliator applies a serrefine or incisor to his opponents’ self-confidence.
From Time ● Mar. 13, 2014
Yet for the public spoliator there is two months' imprisonment; for the relapsed convict twenty years' hard labour and exposure.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Eugène Sue
The Jesuits condemn him as a spoliator, the Franciscans hold him up as one who fought throughout his life for the honour of the founder of their rule.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Henry VIII., that arch spoliator, annexed the school to the collegiate church of St. George's, Windsor.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Nor must it be forgotten, that the hand of the spoliator is falling heavily on all objects of antiquity.
From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 by Dawson Turner
