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
For you—you are made of this stuff—you are a bird of prey, a spoliator...
From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
And now, too, had he an equal interest in the removal of his double rival, whom, besides, he considered the spoliator of his hoarded property.
From The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
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
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
