DESPOILS
Verb
despoils
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despoil
Anagrams
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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