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Meaning of "spoliate" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SPOLIATE

ˈspəʊlɪˌeɪt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPOLIATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spoliate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb spoliate in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SPOLIATE

PRESENT

Present
I spoliate
you spoliate
he/she/it spoliates
we spoliate
you spoliate
they spoliate
Present continuous
I am spoliating
you are spoliating
he/she/it is spoliating
we are spoliating
you are spoliating
they are spoliating
Present perfect
I have spoliated
you have spoliated
he/she/it has spoliated
we have spoliated
you have spoliated
they have spoliated
Present perfect continuous
I have been spoliating
you have been spoliating
he/she/it has been spoliating
we have been spoliating
you have been spoliating
they have been spoliating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I spoliated
you spoliated
he/she/it spoliated
we spoliated
you spoliated
they spoliated
Past continuous
I was spoliating
you were spoliating
he/she/it was spoliating
we were spoliating
you were spoliating
they were spoliating
Past perfect
I had spoliated
you had spoliated
he/she/it had spoliated
we had spoliated
you had spoliated
they had spoliated
Past perfect continuous
I had been spoliating
you had been spoliating
he/she/it had been spoliating
we had been spoliating
you had been spoliating
they had been spoliating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will spoliate
you will spoliate
he/she/it will spoliate
we will spoliate
you will spoliate
they will spoliate
Future continuous
I will be spoliating
you will be spoliating
he/she/it will be spoliating
we will be spoliating
you will be spoliating
they will be spoliating
Future perfect
I will have spoliated
you will have spoliated
he/she/it will have spoliated
we will have spoliated
you will have spoliated
they will have spoliated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been spoliating
you will have been spoliating
he/she/it will have been spoliating
we will have been spoliating
you will have been spoliating
they will have been spoliating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would spoliate
you would spoliate
he/she/it would spoliate
we would spoliate
you would spoliate
they would spoliate
Conditional continuous
I would be spoliating
you would be spoliating
he/she/it would be spoliating
we would be spoliating
you would be spoliating
they would be spoliating
Conditional perfect
I would have spoliate
you would have spoliate
he/she/it would have spoliate
we would have spoliate
you would have spoliate
they would have spoliate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been spoliating
you would have been spoliating
he/she/it would have been spoliating
we would have been spoliating
you would have been spoliating
they would have been spoliating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you spoliate
we let´s spoliate
you spoliate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to spoliate
Past participle
spoliated
Present Participle
spoliating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPOLIATE

affiliate · antliate · bifoliate · binucleate · conciliate · curvifoliate · defoliate · disaffiliate · domiciliate · enucleate · exfoliate · filiate · humiliate · interfoliate · linoleate · maleate · oleate · palliate · parvifoliate · retaliate

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPOLIATE

spokeshave · spokesman · spokesmanship · spokesmen · spokespeople · spokesperson · spokeswoman · spokeswomen · spokewise · Spoleto · spoliation · spoliative · spoliator · spoliatory · spondaic · spondaical · spondee · spondulicks · spondulix · spondyl

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPOLIATE

angustifoliate · appreciate · appropriate · associate · ciliate · emolliate · foliate · forisfamiliate · immediate · inappropriate · initiate · intermediate · multifoliate · perfoliate · quadrifoliate · quinquefoliate · sinupalliate · talliate · trifoliate · unifoliate

Synonyms and antonyms of spoliate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spoliate» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SPOLIATE

Find out the translation of spoliate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of spoliate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spoliate» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

spoliate
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

spoliate
570 millions of speakers
en

English

spoliate
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

spoliate
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

spoliate
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

spoliate
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

spoliate
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

লুণ্ঠন করা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

spolier
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Spoliate
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

spoliate
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

spoliate
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

spoliate
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Spoliate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

spoliate
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

spoliate
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

झाडाची पाने
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

gaspetmek
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

spoliate
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

spoliate
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

spoliate
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

spoliate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

spoliate
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spoliate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spoliate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spoliate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spoliate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPOLIATE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spoliate

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPOLIATE»

Discover the use of spoliate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spoliate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Criminals and Victims
As observed above, regardless of C2's culpability in the primary crime, an exogenously higher p1 reduces her incentive to spoliate: she compares a lower utility involving some sort of income loss to a higher utility that involves no income loss, ...
W. David Allen, 2011
2
Walker remodelled: Smart's pronouncing dictionary of the ...
Spod'-U-MENE, *. Prismatic triphane spar. SPOIL=gpoil, v. and S. (See also Spoliate, Ac.) To corrupt, to mar, to make useless :— n«*. To decay, to grow useless:—*. Corruption, the cast skin oi asnnke; cause of corruption: see also Spoliate, ...
John Walker, Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (Mich.), 1871
3
A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
SPLINTERY— SPOLIATE. SPOLIATE— SPONGIFORM. raent split off. In Surgery, a long, thin piece of wood, tin, &c, used for preventing the ends of broken bones from moving, so as to interrupt the process of their uniting. Splint-bone, the ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1859
4
Dictionary of the English Language Exhibiting Orthography, ...
to plunder, rob, spoliate (do.); (from anoth. r.) to cause to decay or perish ; to corrupt or vitiate ; to mar ; to taint ; to ruin or destroy ; to render useless ; to injure seriously or fatally : — vi. To prac plunder or robbery ; to lose its valuable or charac ...
Arnold James Cooley, 1861
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates
Had I done so, my conduct would have risen up against me when I oppose, as I do oppose, the principle of this Bill as calculated to spoliate the Church. And therefore what I am now saying is not with a view in any underhand manner to ...
Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, 1869
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A New French & English Dictionary
SPLENIQUE, adj. (anat.) splenic, spleoical. SpOLiATE«R,*m. spoiler, robber, plunderer. SPOLIATION, sf. (jur.) spoliation. SPOLIEII, uo. (jur.) to spoliate, to plunder, to SPONUA'UICE, udj. (poel.) spondaic. [rob. SPONDEE, sm. (poet.) aspondee ...
W. Cobbett, 1833
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J - Z.
SPOLIATE SPORANGIUM Spoliate ( spo'li-at ) [L. spoliatus -spolium, spoil.] v. t. & v. i. to plunder ^j Spoliated pa. t, and pa. p. Spo'liating pr. p. Spoliation n. plunder, pillage ft^SfHT (g ^H ) ?gf- *(fig-) extortion 3f«rft f, f, vrevr^fcr ^ft- 3. ( eccl-) thi ...
Nilakantha Babaji Ranade, 1996
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A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in ...
Citations and topoi are spolia; conversely, spoliate objects are citations. Excised from their original (ruined) context, citations assume the authority (auctoritas) of the no longer usable whole. The ancient fragment, enclosed within a new system  ...
Conrad Rudolph, 2011
9
A Dictionary of Entomology
SPOILE Noun. (Etymology obscure. PL, Spoiles.) Cast skin at moulting. SPOLIATE Trans. Verb. (Latin, spoliatus, spoliare.) To plunder, pillage or rob. Spoliate; Spoliated; Spoliating. SPONGE Noun. (Greek, spongia I sponge. PL, Sponges.) 1.
‎2011
10
A New Universal Etymological, Technological and Pronouncing ...
SPLINTERY—SPOLIATE. SPOLIATE—SPONGIFORM. ment split off. In Surgery, along, thin piece of wood, tin, &c., nsed for preventing the ends of broken bones from moving, so as to interrupt the process of their uniting. Splint-bone, the fibula  ...
John Craig (lexicographer.), 1849

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPOLIATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spoliate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Israel Air Force: S-300 a surmountable challenge
I will commission him against a godless nation, appoint him over the people [deserving] of my vengeance, to pillage for plunder, to spoliate for spoil, to. «The Times of Israel, Apr 15»
2
Pactul Hitler-Stalin sau îmbrățișarea gangsterilor totalitari
Pe baza protocoalelor secrete, au fost anihilate state, au fost spoliate națiuni, au fost organizate deportări, strămutări, lichidări în masă. Cum nota scriitorul ... «Radio Europa Liberă, Apr 15»
3
Russia ups ante in missile sale to Iran, reports say
I will commission him against a godless nation, appoint him over the people [deserving] of my vengeance, to pillage for plunder, to spoliate for spoil, to tread ... «Ynetnews, Feb 15»
4
Boscoreale: tesori archeologici e villa della Pisanella
Per tale motivo vennero esplorate e spoliate delle loro bellezze tante piccole ville fino al 1928, quando Boscoreale venne nuovamente dimenticata. Nel corso ... «Vesuvio Live, Feb 15»
5
New Music Video in Solidarity with Yehuda Glick: We Will Ascend
I will commission him against a godless nation, appoint him over the people [deserving] of my vengeance, to pillage for plunder, to spoliate for spoil, to tread ... «Arutz Sheva, Nov 14»
6
Celebrate July 4th Like Our Founding Fathers Intended: By …
Also, it would be great if the government didn't spoliate — I mean “recycle” — any more evidence…. In its motion, True the Vote argues that the law obligated the ... «Above the Law, Jul 14»
7
Kosovo at a critical juncture
If judged by its performance, PDK's aim was much less to develop Kosovo than to spoliate it. Since 2008 this party presided over an orgy of predation that ... «TransConflict, Jul 14»
8
Dicţionarul universal al creatoarelor
Câte creatoare nu au fost descurajate, amuțite, spoliate, refulate de-a lungul secolelor, precum Ana Maria Mozart sau Rosalind Franklin, a cărei descoperire a ... «Revista 22, May 14»
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Pentagon deploying troops to thwart Russia
I will commission him against a godless nation, appoint him over the people [deserving] of my vengeance, to pillage for plunder, to spoliate for spoil, to tread ... «WKYC-TV, Apr 14»
10
Germania vrea să adopte o lege despre operele de artă furate de …
Ea a criticat faptul că moştenitorii familiilor spoliate trebuie să dovedească faptul că proprietarul actual al operelor le-a achiziţionat fiind "de rea-credinţă". «Mediafax, Feb 14»
REFERENCE
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