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Etymology edit

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

Verb edit

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.

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  • 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.

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Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

spoliate

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

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Participle edit

spoliate f pl

  1. feminine plural of spoliato

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Verb edit

spoliāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of spoliō