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Despoil Common

Despoil has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

Plunder; spoliation.

Verb
1

steal goods; take as spoils

"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

2

destroy and strip of its possession

"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

3

To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.

See Also
spoil pillage despoilment despoliation rape undespoiled despoiling spoliation
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
take destroy
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
deplume
Rhyming Words
oil voil roil toil soil noil coil foil boil moil reoil spoil deoil droil aboil broil anoil snoil unoil choil
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