Associations to the word «Despoil»

DESPOIL, verb. (transitive) To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.

DESPOIL, verb. (transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.

DESPOIL, verb. (obsolete) (transitive or reflexive) To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.

DESPOIL, noun. (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

DESPOIL, verb. Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners".

DESPOIL, verb. Destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country".