spoliator

noun

Definition of spoliatornext
as in depredator

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  1. marauder
  2. saboteur
  3. wrecker
  4. sacker
  5. spoiler
  6. waster
Noun
  • 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
  • Finding clean water is challenging, marauders roam the land, and some of the humans who remain have resorted to unthinkable behaviour, like cannibalism.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of marauder
Noun
  • Now, for those who fail to download a software patch for their gear shifters—yes, bike components now get software updates—there may be hacker saboteurs to contend with, too.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Others, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist Westbrook Pegler, skipped the niceties and went straight to accusing their fellow citizens of being enemy saboteurs.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of saboteur
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
  • The Raiders ran for over 100 yards anyway. Linebackers: F Khalil Mack, the NFL’s leading sacker, had six the last time these two met.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Like Chandler Jones, sacker of quarterbacks.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2021
Definition of sacker
Noun
  • This article contains spoilers from Agatha All Along.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This piece contains spoilers about Agatha All Along’s finale.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of spoiler
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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