despoil

verb
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪl/
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪl/
(literary)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they despoil
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪl/
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪl/
he / she / it despoils
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪlz/
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪlz/
past simple despoiled
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪld/
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪld/
past participle despoiled
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪld/
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪld/
-ing form despoiling
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪlɪŋ/
🔊/dɪˈspɔɪlɪŋ/
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  1. despoil something (of something) to steal something valuable from a place; to make a place less attractive by damaging or destroying it抢劫;掠夺;蹂躏;破坏 synonym plunderTopics Crime and punishmentc2
    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French despoillier, from Latin despoliare ‘rob, plunder’ (from spolia ‘spoil’).