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despoilde‧spoil /dɪˈspɔɪl/ verb [transitive] literary despoilOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French despoillier, from Latin spoliare ‘to rob’ VERB TABLEdespoil |
Present | I, you, we, they | despoil | | he, she, it | despoils | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | despoiled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have despoiled | | he, she, it | has despoiled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had despoiled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will despoil | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have despoiled |
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Present | I | am despoiling | | he, she, it | is despoiling | | you, we, they | are despoiling | Past | I, he, she, it | was despoiling | | you, we, they | were despoiling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been despoiling | | he, she, it | has been despoiling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been despoiling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be despoiling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been despoiling |
- The sandy beaches are being despoiled by an oil spill.
- It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces.
- On the contrary, they saw themselves as purifying a church that had become diluted, dehydrated, and despoiled.
- Regulated, socialised economies trample on human dignity, despoil the natural environment and depress economic performance.
1to make a place much less attractive by removing or damaging things → spoil2to steal from a place or people using force, especially in a war |