OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 37061

despoil

/dɪˈspɔɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
despojar
To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
Ripton was familiar with the rod, a monster much despoiled of his terrors by intimacy.
a law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled
despojar
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
The Earl of March, following the plain path which his father had trodden out, despoiled Henry the father, and Edward the son, both of their lives and kingdom.
To intercept thy way, or send thee back / Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.