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"Ruin"2 answers
spoil5 lettersdevastation11 letters
Filled answer is this word (SPOIL).
Definitions
alter from the original
Word origin
From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoliō, spoliāre (“pillage, ruin, spoil”).
Used in a sentence
“All that herde hym wer amased and sayde: ys nott this he that spoylled them whych called on this name in Jerusalem?”
“To do her dye (quoth Vna) were despight, / And shame t'auenge so weake an enimy; / But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.”
“Roger, that rich Bishop of Salisbury,[…]spoiled of his goods by King Stephen, […]through grief ran mad, spoke and did he knew not what.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Ruin”5 letters
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