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Verb: despoil  di'spoyl
  1. Rob or strip (a place) of its contents or resources destructively
    "Mining has despoiled the landscape";
    - rape [archaic], spoil [archaic], plunder
     
  2. 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

Type of: destroy, ruin, take

Encyclopedia: Despoil