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Antonyms for despoil
dɪˈspɔɪlde·spoil

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  1. despoil

    Antonyms:
    decorate, adorn, embellish, enrich, reinstate, rehabilitate

    Synonyms:
    strip, denude, ravage, devastate, rob, havoc, spoliate

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  1. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb

    steal goods; take as spoils

    "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

    Synonyms:
    foray, comb, disrobe, spoil, clean, discase, leach, rape, divest, violate, sack, dismantle, strip, unclothe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, denudate, strip down, go, ransack, loot, deprive, peel, plunder, bare, pillage, disinvest

  2. rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunderverb

    destroy and strip of its possession

    "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

    Synonyms:
    baffle, pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, foray, bilk, dishonour, itch, bungle, rifle, ravish, muck up, dishonor, mishandle, bumble, plunder, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, screw up, pillage, transgress, fumble, vitiate, flub, rape, baby, impair, ball up, featherbed, bollocks up, loot, break, desecrate, bodge, mess up, sack, deflower, offend, thwart, louse up, breach, go against, mar, indulge, spoil, muff, violate, infract, strip, outrage, cocker, foul up, ransack, cross, fluff, assault, mollycoddle, bobble, profane, reave, coddle, bollix up, cosset, bollix, corrupt, bollocks

How to use despoil in a sentence?

  1. Francis Cardinal George, OMI:

    To despoil oneself of all wealth in Jesus’ name is a sign of faith in Divine Providence.

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