'Despoil' definitions:

Definition of 'despoil'

From: WordNet
verb
Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
verb
Destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" [syn: rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder]

Definition of 'Despoil'

From: GCIDE
  • 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 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]

Definition of 'despoil'

From: GCIDE
  • despoil \de*spoil"\, n. Spoil. [Obs.] --Wolsey. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'despoil'

From: Moby Thesaurus