despoil
verb (used with object)
to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
will despoil
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future tenseof despoil.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“The planned office tower will despoil vistas protected for decades,” Mr. Schneiderman said in the amicus brief, submitted to the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2014
It will take the color out of the cheek of your wife, it will despoil the husband of pluck and energy and hope.
From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall
Izdubhar: But if the Assyrians come, we shall all perish; they will despoil us all.
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke
After the enclosure they will despoil a boggy place that is famous for orchises at Royce Wood end.
From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by J. L. Cherry
Possibly some historical calculator will despoil me of this story.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
