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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -despoils-, *despoils*, despoil
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
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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