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Despoil

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Verb

1. despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip

steal goods; take as spoils

Example Sentences:
'During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners'

2. despoil, plunder, rape, spoil, violate

destroy and strip of its possession

Example Sentences:
'The soldiers raped the beautiful country'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Despoil

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verb
(transitive)
to strip or deprive by force; plunder; rob; loot

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Despoil

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verb transitive
to deprive of something of value by or as by force; rob; plunder

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Despoil

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tr.v. de·spoiled, de·spoil·ing, de·spoils
1. To deprive of something valuable, especially by force; rob: The invaders despoiled the town of its art treasures. He was despoiled of his inheritance by crooked lawyers.
2. To ruin, especially by destroying or removing what is valuable: "a landscape that had been raped and despoiled by coal mining" (George Black).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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