DESPOILED

despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked

(adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; “the raped countryside”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

despoiled

simple past tense and past participle of despoil

Source: Wiktionary


DESPOIL

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



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3 July 2024

DITHER

(noun) an excited state of agitation; “he was in a dither”; “there was a terrible flap about the theft”


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