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Word entry · 7 letters

despoil

Best crossword clue

"Strip of valuables"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈspɔɪl/Part of speech verbSorted deilopsStarts with DEnds with L1 clues
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Definitions

  1. destroy and strip of its possession

Word origin

From Middle English despoylen, dispoylen, from Old French despoillier ( > French dépouiller), from Latin dēspoliō, dēspoliāre.

Used in a sentence

  • a law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled
  • Ripton was familiar with the rod, a monster much despoiled of his terrors by intimacy.
  • They've come to witness the Beginning. The rebirth of Paradise, despoiled by mankind.

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