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Definition of despoiling : of Despoil

Synonyms:

degradation, ill-use, abuse, violation, ill-treatment, debauchery, debasement, misuse, desecration, maltreatment

ruining, spoiling, damaging, laying waste, ravaging, depredating, rending, ransacking, marring, wasting, pillaging, wreaking havoc, wrecking, vandalizing

excreting, dejecting, slopping, leaking

defiling, debasing, misusing, desecrating, maltreating, ill-treating, debauching, ill-using, degrading, abusing, violating

Usage examples:

• Then they walked on a little way, and thieves met them and despoiling them of whatso remained with them, stripped them of their raiment and took from them the two children; whereupon the woman wept and said to her husband, " Hearkye, my good man, put away from thee this folly and up with us to follow the thieves, so, peradventure they may have compassion on us and restore the children to us." - "Supplemental Nights, Volume 1", Richard F. Burton.
• Longchamp, bishop of Ely, proceeded to show his sense of Christian fellowship by arresting his brother bishop, and despoiling him of his share in the government; and to set forth his humility and loving- kindness in a retinue of nobles and knights who consumed in one night's entertainment some five years' revenue of their entertainer, and in a guard of fifteen hundred foreign soldiers, whom he considered indispensable to the exercise of a vigour beyond the law in maintaining wholesome discipline over the refractory English. - "Maid Marian", Thomas Love Peacock.
• Its memory persists, robbing them of laughter, despoiling them of that dreamless perfect sleep which is Youth's heritage, making of night a thing to be dreaded. - "The Disturbing Charm", Berta Ruck.