despoil
[verb]
Synonyms: ravage, depredate, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, pillage, sack, spoliate, waste

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de‧spoil /dɪˈspɔɪl/ verb [transitive] literary
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: despoillier, from Latin spoliare 'to rob']

1. to make a place much less attractive by removing or damaging things ⇒ spoil

2. to steal from a place or people using force, especially in a war

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