DESPOIL

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2.
v.

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.

3.
n.

Spoil. [Obs.] Wolsey.


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