despoil
verb (used with object)
to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
has despoiled
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present perfectof despoil (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Worst of all, it has despoiled the human imagination.
From Time Magazine Archive
A feeling of utter loneliness, of hopeless desolation falls upon him, such as hammers at the heart when Death has despoiled us of all that Life held dear.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
