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Spoiler

One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

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Broader term 9

Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Campaigner 76% connected

One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

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Candidate 76% connected

One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a cand…

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Nominee 76% connected

A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to offi…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stealer 76% connected

One who steals; a thief.

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Thief 76% connected

One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Narrower term 4

Buccaneer 76% connected

A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 1…

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Pirate 76% connected

A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to crui…

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Sea robber 76% connected

A pirate; a sea rover.

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Sea rover 76% connected

One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.

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Derivationally related 2

Reave 74% connected

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Reave 74% connected

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 7

Despoiler 92% connected

One who despoils.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Freebooter 92% connected

One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Looter 92% connected

A plunderer.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pamperer 92% connected

One who, or that which, pampers.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Pillager 92% connected

One who pillages.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Plunderer 92% connected

One who plunders or pillages.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Raider 92% connected

One who engages in a raid.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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