despoil
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈspɔɪl/
despoil (despoils, present participle despoiling; 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
- 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.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:9.12?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xij], in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:
- So syr Persants doughter dyd as her fader bad her / and soo she wente vnto syr Beaumayns bed / & pryuely she dispoylled her / & leid her doune by hym / & thenne he awoke & sawe her & asked her what she was
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:9.12?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xij], in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:
- Spanish: despojar
- Spanish: despojar
despoil (plural despoils)
- (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.
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