spoliate
English
Verb
spoliate (third-person singular simple present spoliates, present participle spoliating, simple past and past participle spoliated)
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.
References
- spoliate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- spoliate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
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