spoliate

verb

Definition of spoliatenext
as in to wipe out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoliate
  1. wipe out
  2. sack
  3. tear down
  4. plunder
  5. loot
  6. destroy
  7. sabotage
  8. pillage
Verb
  • Early voting is often critical in the state, and registered Republicans appear to have wiped out the advantage Democrats enjoyed four years ago.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
  • During the California Gold Rush, San Francisco was almost wiped out by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of wipe out
Verb
  • The Rams sacked him seven times in their overtime win last Sunday.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The Titans’ best chance to score was snuffed out near the end of the first half when Mountain View’s Kaitlyn Liddle roared in to sack sophomore quarterback Kelsey Peterson.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of sack
Verb
  • Water surged over a gully running through the Valencian town, ripping apart roads and tearing down walls of homes.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • When the hotel was torn down, much of the lumber was sold to be used in building houses in the area.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of tear down
Verb
  • A week after Helene smashed into the Southeast, power outages, water shortages and impassable roads stymie recovery Tropical systems, of course, can plunder coastlines.
    Sharif Paget, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • And neither Coppola nor Snyder deals with how ideologues have plundered the West.
    Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of plunder
Verb
  • Recent decades have seen the repatriation of Khmer artifacts from abroad, some of which were looted in the 1970s during the period of violence and instability under the communist Khmer Rouge regime, per the Associated Press.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Since 2022, the detainees are believed to have looted millions of euros and run up a similar amount in property damage, from 2022 to 2024, Europol said.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of loot
Verb
  • Approximately 40 firefighters responded to the blaze, which was first reported at 11:43 a.m., destroyed one building, damaged at least three others, and downed utility wires along 17th Street.
    Ryan Macasero, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The fire destroyed an apartment building near Ammons Street and West 12th Avenue, killing two cats and displacing four people, according to West Metro Fire Rescue.
    Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of destroy
Verb
  • Don’t sabotage your own odds of success by being inflexible, unreasonable or moving too slowly.
    George Deeb, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Van Halen was all set for a reunion tour following the death of guitarist Eddie Van Halen — but singer David Lee Roth sabotaged the plans, according to drummer Alex Van Halen.
    Rachel DeSantis, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of sabotage
Verb
  • Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.
    Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the film, Diop, who is French and of Senegalese descent, follows the 2021 repatriation of 26 artifacts from the Musée du quai Branly back to their place of origin, Dahomey, once a kingdom in the modern-day West African nation of Benin, which France had pillaged in the 1890s.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of pillage
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