despoil
verb (used with object)
to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
had despoiled
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past perfectof despoil.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By demonstrating that golf can rectify the landscape that a mining operation had despoiled, Old Works became another harbinger of golf's role in land reclamation.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 13, 2010
It was only later that I could see how Disney had despoiled beautiful stories and had abused the idea of animation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 1966
Von der Hagen explains these two robberies by observing that Hagan had despoiled Kriemhild of her own inheritance as well as of the wondrous hoard.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
He had damaged Haggerstone, whose evil-speaking he dreaded, and, by impugning his good breeding, had despoiled him of all credit.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
But those two had robbed her, what she took was not so much as a thousandth part of the money of which they had despoiled her.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
