despoiler

noun

Definition of despoilernext
1
as in robber

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2
as in desecrator

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for despoiler
  1. saboteur
  2. marauder
  3. waster
  4. raider
  5. wrecker
  6. destroyer
  7. pirate
Noun
  • The deployment of roughly 10 NATO vessels under the Baltic Sentry mission is intended to deter acts of sabotage and enhance the likelihood of quickly intercepting any saboteurs, YLE reported.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Allied officials say some of the ailing ships are doubling as low-tech saboteur vessels.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of saboteur
Noun
  • The sheltering animals become a makeshift community of helpmates, but marauders onshore, and in the air, abound.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
  • In the story, that turmoil included tsarist marauders that disturbed, or pogrommed, Jews.
    Dave Gordon, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
Definition of marauder
Noun
  • Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
  • California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of waster
Noun
  • One of the militias has a powerful saw that can cut through concrete, enabling them to sneak behind Judicial’s raiders.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In Charleston, Loyalists were desperate for skilled horsemen who could work as scouts and raiders, plundering Patriot homes for supplies.
    Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of raider
Noun
  • At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.
    Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of wrecker
Noun
  • Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force JS Kaga: Kure, Japan The Kaga, which is a helicopter destroyer undergoing conversion into the country's first aircraft carrier since World War II, remained pierside at Kure naval base in Hiroshima prefecture, according to a photo shared by a ship spotter on Monday.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • America and the world need Trump to be a disrupter and reformer, not merely a destroyer.
    Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of destroyer
Noun
  • The port quickly became successful, attracting pirates, including the infamous Blackbeard, who used the island’s geography to launch surprise attacks on passing ships.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In the finale, the kids are able to contact the New Republic to warn them about the pirates, and permanently drop the barrier around the planet, revealing the existence of At Attin for the first time to the rest of the galaxy.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of pirate
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