Synonyms for despoil
Definitions
- v. 1
To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
- v. 2
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
Related words
- Word family
- despoiler despoilment despoliation
Forms
- Past participle
- despoiled
e.g. despoiled → plundered, pillaged, ravaged, desolated…
Example sentences
- loot The thieves divided their loot among themselves.
- plunder They lived for deeds of daring and plunder.
- pillage France began to pillage Algeria in 1830.
By length
- 3 letters
- rob1
- 4 letters
- rape1, sack1, loot1
- 5 letters
- waste1, strip1, rifle2, spoil1, havoc2, foray2, reave1
- 6 letters
- damage2, fleece1, divest2, ravage2, denude2
- 7 letters
- violate3, plunder2, pillage2, ransack2
- 8 letters
- desolate3, spoliate
- 9 letters
- devastate3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rifle2 = 2 syllables).