spoliate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SPOLIATE, verb transitive [Latin] To plunder; to pillage. SPOLIATE, verb intransitive To practice plunder; to commit robbery. In time of war, rapacious men are let loose to spoliate on commerce.
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