spoliate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: spo=li=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

spoliate, v. t. & i. [L. spoliatus, p. p. of spoliare to spoil. See Spoil, v. t.].

 To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

spoliate

depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gut, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, rifle, sack, spoil, sweep, waste

ROGET THESAURUS

spoliate

Stealing

VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.