expoliar
Spanish, verb/eɡspoˈljaɾ/
expoliar is spelled E-X-P-O-L-I-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 130,910th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expoliar is a Spanish verb meaning “to pillage, to loot, to spoliate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Despojar”.
What does expoliar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pillage, to loot, to spoliate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Despojar. 2. Incautar el patrimonio histórico, arqueológico y artístico de un lugar inmoralmente, irrespetuosamente y con afán de lucro.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of expoliar
- expolio first-person present singular
- expolié first-person preterite singular
- expoliado participle past
- expoliando gerund
- expoliada feminine participle past
- expoliados masculine participle past
- expoliadas feminine participle past
- expolias indicative informal present
- expoliás indicative informal present
- expolia indicative present singular
- expoliamos first-person indicative plural
- expoliáis indicative plural present
- expolian indicative plural present
- expoliaba first-person imperfect indicative
- expoliabas imperfect indicative second-person
- expoliábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- expoliabais imperfect indicative plural
- expoliaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expoliar?
- /eɡspoˈljaɾ/
- [eɣ̞s.poˈljaɾ]
- [ekspoˈljaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to expoliar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expoliar in Spanish?
expoliar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).