Meaning of DESPOIL
| Pronunciation: | | di'spoyl
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- [v] destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
- [v] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
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| | Synonyms: | | foray, loot, pillage, plunder, plunder, ransack, rape, reave, rifle, spoil, strip, violate |
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| | See Also: | | deplume, destroy, displume, ruin, take | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\De*spoil"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Despoiled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Despoiling}.] [OF. despoiller, F. d['e]pouiller, L.
despoliare, despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob,
spolium spoil, booty. Cf. {Spoil}, {Despoliation}.]
1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
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.
Syn: To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle.
\De*spoil"\, n.
Spoil. [Obs.] --Wolsey.
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