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despoil verb assail, attack, bereave, consume, deplume, depredate, deprive, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, forage, foray, impoverish, lay waste, leave destitute, loot, make off with, overrun, pilfer, pillage, plunder, purloin, raid, ransack, ravage, raven, rifle, rob, ruin, ruinate, sack, seize, spoliate, steal, strip, take, take by force, thieve, wreck See also: corrupt, debauch, deface, deprive, devastate, divest, harry, hold up, loot, pillage, pirate, plunder, prey, rob, spoil, steal, subvert, taint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Meanwhile, he despoils our pristine places and contaminates our air and water. We know that undertaking the impeachment process, wherever it leads, was what the Constitution provided for a president who had so betrayed the people as to lie to their faces and lie under oath, and even as he cringes and whines, so fears the consequences of his behavior that he despoils the meaning of contrition by refusing to admit what he did. In "The Rape of Lucrece" the male violently despoils the female and is humiliated for his perfidy. |
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