despoil
31despoil — To deprive a person of property of which he is in possession by violence or by some clandestine means. Sunol v Hepburn, 1 Cal 255, 268 …
32despoil — v.tr. literary (often foll. by of) plunder; rob; deprive (despoiled the roof of its lead). Derivatives: despoiler n. despoilment n. despoliation n. Etymology: ME f. OF despoill(i)er f. L despoliare (as DE , spoliare SPOIL) …
33Despoiled — Despoil De*spoil , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Despoiled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Despoiling}.] [OF. despoiller, F. d[ e]pouiller, L. despoliare, despoliatum; de + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. {Spoil}, {Despoliation}.] 1. To strip, as of… …
34Despoiling — Despoil De*spoil , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Despoiled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Despoiling}.] [OF. despoiller, F. d[ e]pouiller, L. despoliare, despoliatum; de + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. {Spoil}, {Despoliation}.] 1. To strip, as of… …
35despoiler — despoil ► VERB literary ▪ steal valuable possessions from. DERIVATIVES despoiler noun despoliation noun. ORIGIN Latin despoliare rob, plunder …
36despoliation — despoil ► VERB literary ▪ steal valuable possessions from. DERIVATIVES despoiler noun despoliation noun. ORIGIN Latin despoliare rob, plunder …
37plunder — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pillage, loot, sack, spoil, booty; advantage, gain; spoliation, rapine. v. devastate, harry, despoil, strip, rifle, loot, forage, pillage, ransack, maraud, rob, depredate. See stealing, acquisition.… …
38ravage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. lay waste, pillage, plunder, sack, devastate. See destruction. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. pillage, overrun, devastate, destroy, despoil, lay waste, plunder, sack, desolate, wreck, waste, disrupt,… …
39spoil — [13] Latin spolium originally denoted ‘skin stripped from a killed animal’ (it went back ultimately to the Indo European base *spel ‘split, burst’, which also produced German spalten ‘split’, and probably English spill and split). It broadened… …
40spoil — [13] Latin spolium originally denoted ‘skin stripped from a killed animal’ (it went back ultimately to the Indo European base *spel ‘split, burst’, which also produced German spalten ‘split’, and probably English spill and split). It broadened… …
