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despoil
English
Etymology
From Middle English despoylen, dispoylen, from Old French despoillier ( > French dépouiller), from Latin d?spoli?, d?spoli?re.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??sp??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Verb
despoil (third-person singular simple present despoils, present participle despoiling, simple past and past participle despoiled)
- (transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
- 1849, Thomas Macaulay, History of England, Chapter 20:
- a law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 5:
- Ripton was familiar with the rod, a monster much despoiled of his terrors by intimacy.
- 2010, The Economist, 17 July, p.53:
- To dreamers in the West, Tibet is a Shangri-La despoiled by Chinese ruthlessness and rapacity.
- 1849, Thomas Macaulay, History of England, Chapter 20:
- (transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, 410-11:
- To intercept thy way, or send thee back / Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.
- 1849, Thomas Macaulay, History of England, Chapter 20:
- A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, 410-11:
- (obsolete, transitive or reflexive) To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
Related terms
- despoiler
- despoilment
- despoliation
- spoliate
- spoliation
Translations
Noun
despoil (plural despoils)
- (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.
References
- despoil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- despoil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- diploes, diploës, dipoles, elopids, peloids, soliped, spoiled
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bespoil
English
Verb
bespoil (third-person singular simple present bespoils, present participle bespoiling, simple past and past participle bespoiled)
- (dated, transitive) To spoil or pollute.
Anagrams
- bipoles
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