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Meanings of despoil in inglês

português
roubar
catalão
desvalisar
espanhol
despojar

Steal goods; take as spoils.

roubar
catalão
saquejar

Destroy and strip of its possession.

saquejar
Usage of despoil in inglês
1
They'd probably have to completely despoil the surrounding acres to manage it.
Blood and Bone
2
The duty not to contrive through a covetous heart to despoil another.
The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
3
But not for himself did Meleager despoil the body of his foe.
A Book of Myths
4
Your father is an Egyptian to me, and I will despoil him.
The Prime Minister
5
I doubt not they be robbers, eager to overtake and despoil us.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
6
To defile or despoil such beauty would be to desecrate a shrine.
The Reconstructed School
7
Euphorbus, attempting to despoil Patroclus of his armour, is slain by Menelaus.
The Iliad of Homer (1873)
8
Fancy a man compelled to beg of a robber to despoil him!
An Outcast of the Islands
9
Advance; and I will despoil myself still further for thy advantage.
The Last Man
10
But forgive me; it was hard for me to see you despoil yourself.
Doctor Pascal
11
You pull down, you despoil; but they build up, they restore.
The White Company
12
But now the Weavers despoil the very land you live on.
The skein of lament
13
He could crush and torture and despoil his enemies until he was tired.
The Market-Place
14
They kill and despoil and exile any one whom they please.
Gorgias
15
He feels that, in any case, he did not despoil Pauline or Gardiner.
The Cost
16
See then what good things you deprive and despoil me of.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
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Translations for despoil
espanhol
despojar
Despoil through the time
Despoil across language varieties
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