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spoliating

spoliating is the present participle and gerund of spoliate.

Meaning of spoliate

Verb

spoliate (third-person singular simple present spoliates, present participle spoliating, simple past and past participle spoliated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To plunder
    Synonyms:
    pillage, despoil, rob
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in robbery; to plunder.

Questions about spoliating

What is spoliating the present participle and gerund of?
Spoliating is the present participle and gerund of spoliate.

Words near spoliating in the dictionary

  1. spoliarium
  2. spoliary
  3. spoliate
  4. spoliated
  5. spoliates
  6. spoliating
  7. spoliation
  8. spoliations
  9. spoliative
  10. spoliator
  11. spoliators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spoliating (page history and authors); spoliate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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