despoil

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. steal goods;
take as spoils (Freq. 1)
- During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
• Syn:
plunder, loot, reave, strip, rifle,
ransack, pillage, foray
• Derivationally related forms:
pillage (for: pillage), pillager (for: pillage), pillaging (for: pillage), looter (for: loot), loot (for: loot), looting (for: loot), despoilment, despoliation, despoiler, plunderer (for: plunder), plunder (for: plunder), plundering (for: plunder)
• Hypernyms:
take
• Hyponyms:
deplume, displume
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. destroy and strip of its possession
- The soldiers raped the beautiful country
• Syn:
rape, spoil, violate, plunder
• Derivationally related forms:
plundering (for: plunder), despoilment, despoliation, spoil (for: spoil), spoliation (for: spoil), spoilation (for: spoil), rape (for: rape)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, ruin
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  rape, spoil, violate, plunder, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray