despoil

Verb
Synonyms: plunderlootreavestriprifleransackpillageforayrapespoilviolate

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. steal goods; take as spoils“During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”Synonyms: plunderlootreavestriprifleransackpillageforay
  2. destroy and strip of its possession“The soldiers raped the beautiful country”Synonyms: rapespoilviolateplunder
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Despoil \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. [1913 Webster]

2.To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. [1913 Webster]

The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair.— Gower.[1913 Webster]
A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.— Milton.

Syn: To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle. [1913 Webster]

despoil \de*spoil"\, n. Spoil. [Obs.] --Wolsey. [1913 Webster]
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