DESPOIL

rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder

(verb) destroy and strip of its possession; “The soldiers raped the beautiful country”

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

(verb) steal goods; take as spoils; “During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

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.

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

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

Noun

despoil (plural despoils)

(obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

Anagrams

• diploes, diploës, dipoles, elopids, peloids, soliped, spoiled

Source: Wiktionary

De*spoil", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Despoiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Despoiling.] Etym: [OF. despoiller, F. dépouiller, 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.

2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.

Syn.

– To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle.

De*spoil", n.

Definition: Spoil. [Obs.] Wolsey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition