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expoliar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • pillage verb To loot or plunder a place by force, typically during war.
  • plunder verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
  • raid noun A sudden attack or surprise incursion, often by armed forces or police.
  • spoil verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.

Senses

expoliar is used for these senses in English:

  • pillage (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
  • plunder (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
  • spoil (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil. [from 14th c.]

pillage — full definition

  1. verb To loot or plunder a place by force, typically during war.
  2. noun The act of looting, or the goods taken by looting.

plunder — full definition

  1. verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
  2. verb To take something excessively or wrongfully, as if by looting.
  3. noun Goods stolen by force, or the act of taking them.

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