despoil
verb (used with object)
to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
is despoiling
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present progressiveof despoil (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But Monkman isn’t just mocking Leutze any more than Rockman is despoiling the beauty of Moran’s vision of nature.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2020
In the U.S., he charges, runoff from mammoth feedlots is despoiling streams and underground aquifers.
From Time Magazine Archive
