| despoil | 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; usually followed by of. "The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair." (Gower) "A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled." (Macaulay) "Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss." (Milton) Synonym: To strip, deprive, rob, bereave, rifle. Origin: OF. Despoiller, F. Depouiller, L. Despoliare, despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. Spoil, Despoliation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| despoil | destroy and strip of its possession |
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| despoil | steal goods |
| despoil | the act of stripping and taking by force |
| despoil | having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence |
| despoil | someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) |
| despoil | the act of stripping and taking by force |
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