despoiler

noun

Definition of despoilernext
1
as in robber

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as in desecrator

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  1. saboteur
  2. marauder
  3. waster
  4. raider
  5. wrecker
  6. destroyer
  7. pirate
Noun
  • The saboteurs' goal was to imply that No Labels was a right-wing shadow effort.
    Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The United States also revealed Russian plans to send saboteurs into eastern Ukraine to stage an incident that could provide Putin with a pretext for an invasion.
    Douglas London, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2022
Definition of saboteur
Noun
  • In the story, that turmoil included tsarist marauders that disturbed, or pogrommed, Jews.
    Dave Gordon, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
  • As was the case in the Middle Ages, unemployed former mercenaries often turn into marauders, preying on the weak to survive and wreaking havoc on ordinary citizens.
    Allison Stanger, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
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
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  • While raiders still rampaged, the Tonkawa more than doubled the number of the city's defenders.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
  • More than 800 years ago, raiders threw a dead body into a well outside a Norwegian castle.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of raider
Noun
  • 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
  • Then the skit begins to outline the story of Domingo, Marcello Hernandez’s charming home wrecker who shows up to set to record straight direct from Domingo.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of wrecker
Noun
  • Ties were so strained, for example, that in 2018 Japan’s Defense Ministry charged that a South Korean navy destroyer directed a targeting radar system at Japanese military patrol aircraft, charges that South Korea denied.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
  • It was originally designed as a helicopter destroyer but is undergoing conversion to a light aircraft carrier.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of destroyer
Noun
  • This small doohickey works with Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery, an exclusive Prime member benefit that protects your packages from porch pirates and increment weather.
    Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Zoom out: Also beware of virtual porch pirates, as one in five delivery package scam attempts starts via text message or messaging apps like WhatsApp or iMessage.
    Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of pirate
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