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despoil
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
despoils; despoiled; despoiling
despoils; despoiled; despoiling
Learner's definition of DESPOIL
[+ object] literary
1
: to severely damage or ruin (a place)破坏；毁掉；蹂躏
- The landscape has been despoiled by industrial development.这片景色由于工业开发而遭到破坏。
2
: to forcefully take what is valuable from (a place)掠夺；抢劫
- The invaders despoiled [=plundered] the village.侵略者洗劫了村庄。
— despoiler
noun, plural despoilers [count]- He sees human beings as despoilers of nature.他认为人类是大自然的破坏者。
despoil
verb
de·spoil di-ˈspȯi(-ə)l 
despoiled; despoiling; despoils
: to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage
despoiler noun
Example Sentences
The landscape has been despoiled by industrial development. the burglars despoiled the art museum in search of treasures they thought they could sell to a fence
Recent Examples on the Web Plastics will continue to despoil the oceans even if all plastic production halts tomorrow. 
Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022 Even a comparative smidgen of methane can despoil the climate. Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021 The 2008 financial crisis exposed the economic folly and moral bankruptcy of a system that relied on bribing executives with stock options to squeeze workers, bamboozle customers, despoil the environment and dodge taxes. Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020 Farm Aid, like other companies, has rejected non-organic cotton that requires extensive use of synthetic fertilizers, soil additives, defoliants and other chemicals that despoil the land. Billboard, 21 Sep. 2020 Ms Ellmann mourns ecosystems despoiled by modern humankind. The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019 Here in a primitive wilderness despoiled by European invaders, where black men and women are rounded up, murdered and hanged from trees, a much farther-reaching tragedy comes into startling focus. San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019 Here in a primitive wilderness despoiled by European invaders, where black men and women are rounded up, murdered and hanged from trees, a much farther-reaching tragedy comes into startling focus. San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019 Here in a primitive wilderness despoiled by European invaders, where black men and women are rounded up, murdered and hanged from trees, a much farther-reaching tragedy comes into startling focus. San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019 See More
Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022 Even a comparative smidgen of methane can despoil the climate. Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021 The 2008 financial crisis exposed the economic folly and moral bankruptcy of a system that relied on bribing executives with stock options to squeeze workers, bamboozle customers, despoil the environment and dodge taxes. Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020 Farm Aid, like other companies, has rejected non-organic cotton that requires extensive use of synthetic fertilizers, soil additives, defoliants and other chemicals that despoil the land. Billboard, 21 Sep. 2020 Ms Ellmann mourns ecosystems despoiled by modern humankind. The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019 Here in a primitive wilderness despoiled by European invaders, where black men and women are rounded up, murdered and hanged from trees, a much farther-reaching tragedy comes into startling focus. San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019 Here in a primitive wilderness despoiled by European invaders, where black men and women are rounded up, murdered and hanged from trees, a much farther-reaching tragedy comes into startling focus. San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019 Here in a primitive wilderness despoiled by European invaders, where black men and women are rounded up, murdered and hanged from trees, a much farther-reaching tragedy comes into startling focus. San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English despoylen, from Anglo-French despoiller, from Latin despoliare, from de- + spoliare to strip, rob — more at spoil entry 1
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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