Word Meanings - DESPOIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Chaucer. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed

Additional info about word: DESPOIL

despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Chaucer. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton. Syn. -- To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESPOIL)

• Deprive
• Strip
• bereave
• despoil
• rob
• divest
• dispossess
• abridge
• depose
• prevent
• hinder
• Dismantle
• Disrobe
• denude
• disarm
• strip
• Extort
• Wring
• fleece
• exact
• express
• squeeze out
• wrench
• wrest
• extract
• Fleece
• shear
• Ravage Spoil
• devastate
• destroy
• desolate
• ransack
• waste
• ruin
• overrun
• plunder

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESPOIL)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to DESPOIL)

• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• WREAKEN
  p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• DISARM
  1. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson. 2. To deprive of the means
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• WRECKING
  a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• WRENCH
  1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. Wrench his sword from him. Shak. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony. Coleridge. 2. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. You wrenched your
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BEWRAP
  To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• UNWRIE
  To uncover. Chaucer.
• WRAP
  To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• OUTLAWRY
  1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection. 2. The state of being an outlaw.