Verb: despoil di'spoyl
- Rob or strip (a place) of its contents or resources destructively
"Mining has despoiled the landscape";
- rape [archaic], spoil [archaic], plunder
- Steal goods; take as spoils
"During the earthquake people despoiled the stores that were deserted by their owners";
- plunder, loot, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
Derived forms: despoiled, despoiling, despoils
Encyclopedia: Despoil