DESPOIL

despoil. Despoil, v.t. to spoil, rob plunder, strip, deprive

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De‐spoil″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Despoiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Despoiling.] [[OF. despoiller, F. dépouiller, L. despoliare, despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. Spoil, Despoliation.]] 1. 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Chaucer.
2. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; — usually followed by of.
The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton. Syn. — To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle.