Definition of spoliate Spoliate
spo•li•ate
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What does spoliate mean?
Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- spoliate (v. t.)
To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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spoliate
spō′li-āt, v.t. to spoil, to plunder, to pillage.—v.i. to practise robbery.—ns. Spō′liary, the place in a Roman amphitheatre where the bodies of slaughtered gladiators were dragged to be stripped; Spoliā′tion, act of spoiling: robbery.—adj. Spō′liātive, serving to take away or diminish.—n. Spō′liātor, one who spoliates.—adj. Spō′liātory, tending to spoil: destructive.—n. Spō′lium, the property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will. [L. spoliatus, pa.p. of spoliāre—spolium, spoil.]
