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.

Related terms

• despoil
• despoliation
• spoil
• spoliation
• spoliative
• spoliator
• spoliatory
• spolium

Translations

To engage in robbery; to plunder

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

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “spoliate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “spoliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lipoates

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

Latin

Verb

spoliāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of spoliō