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| despoil | (ดิสพอยล์') vt. แย่ง, ปล้น, ปล้นสะดม, ตัดสิทธิ์., See also: despoiler n. despoilment n. |
| despoil | (vt) แย่งชิง, ตีชิง, ปล้น, ปล้นสะดม |
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| plunder | (v) steal goods; take as spoils, Syn. ransack, reave, loot, despoil, strip, rifle, pillage, foray | rape | (v) destroy and strip of its possession, Syn. violate, plunder, spoil, despoil |
| Despoil | 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. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ] The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ] A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton. Syn. -- To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle. [ 1913 Webster ] | despoil | n. Spoil. [ Obs. ] Wolsey. [ 1913 Webster ] | despoiled | adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence. Syn. -- pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | despoiler | n. One who despoils. [ 1913 Webster ] | despoilment | n. Despoliation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
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