Definition/Meaning of despoil

• English - Verb: despoil ( third-person singular simple present despoils , present participle despoiling , simple past and past participle despoiled ) ( transitive ) To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage . Macaulay a law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled 2010 , The Economist , 17 July , p .53: To dreamers in the West , Tibet is a…
• English - Noun: despoil ( plural despoils ) ( obsolete ) Plunder; spoliation .
• English - Etymology: From Old French despoillier ( > French dépouiller ), from Latin dēspoliō .
• English - Pronunciation: ( UK ) IPA (key) : /dɪˈspɔɪl/ Rhymes: -ɔɪl
• English - References: despoil in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911 despoil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913