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despoil

verb

1 despoil

Steal goods; take as spoils.

synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip.

Roget 791: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; ... show more

Roget 789: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.    reap, crop, cull, ... show more

Dutch: ontvreemden, brandschatten, roven, plunderen, beroven, uitschudden

2 despoil

Destroy and strip of its possession.

synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate.

Dutch: verprutsen


adjective

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; ... show more

Moby thesaurus: abuse, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, befoul, betray, bewitch, bleed, bleed white, blight, bring to ruin, canker, cheapen, coarsen, condemn, confound, consume, contaminate, corrupt ... show more.

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