despoil

verb

/dɪˈspɔɪl/

Etymology

From Middle English despoylen, dispoylen, from Old French despoillier ( > French dépouiller), from Latin dēspoliō, dēspoliāre.

1
To plunder
To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
- a law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled
- Ripton was familiar with the rod, a monster much despoiled of his terrors by intimacy.
2
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
- The Earl of March, following the plain path which his father had trodden out, despoiled Henry the father, and Edward the son, both of their lives and kingdom.
- To intercept thy way, or send thee back / Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.
- A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled.
3
To strip (someone) of their clothes
To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
- So syr Persants doughter dyd as her fader bad her / and soo she wente vnto syr Beaumayns bed / & pryuely she dispoylled her / & leid her doune by hym / & thenne he awoke & sawe her & asked her what she was
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  Plunder
  Plunder; spoliation.
  - ’Tis done;—despoil and desolation / O’er Rylstone’s fair domain have blown; […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA