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Word Meanings - SPOLIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

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  • STRIPPING
    The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
  • DEVASTATE
    To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
  • RAVAGER
    One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
  • STRIP-LEAF
    Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
  • RAVAGE
    Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble
  • STRIPLING
    A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
  • SPARE
    1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
  • STRIPPER
    One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
  • INDEMNIFY
    1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple. 2. To make restitution or compensation for, as for
  • PRESERVER
    1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
  • SPARERIB
    A piece of pork, consisting or ribs with little flesh on them.
  • SPOLIATE
    To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.
  • DESPOIL
    despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Chaucer. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed
  • DENUDE
    To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
  • HAVOC
    Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
  • SPARELY
    In a spare manner; sparingly.
  • SPARELESS
    Unsparing. Sylvester.
  • SPAREFUL
    Sparing; chary. Fairfax. -- Spare"ful*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
  • STRIPED
    Having stripes of different colors; streaked. Striped bass. See under Bass. -- Striped maple , a slender American tree (Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood. -- Striped mullet. See
  • STRIPE
    A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. 3. A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed
  • UNSTRIPED
    Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • TRANSPARENCE
    The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.
  • TRANSPARENCY
    1. The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence. 2. That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines
  • SUBTRANSPARENT
    Not perfectly transparent.
  • OUTSTRIP
    To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson.

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