| 单词 | despoil |
| 释义 | de·spoil I. 1. < the English buccaneers … fell upon their cities and despoiled them — F.J.Haskin > < the great northern war involving Sweden, Denmark, and Russia completely despoiled Poland — J.S.Davenport > 2. obsolete 3. < monasteries were occasionally despoiled of their land and revenues — Owen & Eleanor Lattimore > < that Colombia had been despoiled of the Isthmus of Panama > < only the Etruscans despoiled the Sirens of all birdlike attributes — Norman Douglas > 4. < the despoiling of the land by their primitive methods of subsistence farming — Jean Fortt > also < magnificent stands of pine despoiled by loggers > 5. < her maternal instincts, stimulated and then despoiled, were increased, and when she loved it was always with an anxious and protective love — Susan Ertz > < you have disagreed and argued without calling each other liars and thieves, without despoiling our best traditions — A.E.Stevenson b. 1990 > Synonyms: see ravage II. 1. archaic 2. obsolete |
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