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Definition of: despoil
(di·spoil′) v.t.
To strip or deprive of something by or as by force; plunder. [<OF despoillier <L despoliare <de- completely + spoliare rob <spolium plunder]
—de·spoil′er noun
—de·spoil′ment noun
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