despoil

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
2. (transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
3. (obsolete, reflexive, transitive) To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.

Noun

Plunder; spoliation.

Sinonieme

plunder

pillage

loot

rob

ransack

sack

ravage

strip

spoil

reave

fleece

foray

steal

violate

deflower

devastate

rape

rifle

depredate

deprive

destroy

detect

discover

distrain

drag down

expose

exuviae

harry

hijack

hold up

ill-use

jaundice

lay waste

maltreat

mar

maraud

murder

nick

overrun

peel

pervert

prey

profane

purloin

raid

ruin

rummage

seize

shell

🐚

skin

Vertalings

saccheggiare

despojar

απογυμνώνω

dépouiller

piller

ληστεύω

depredare

plündern

spogliare

pillage

spolio

spolier

saquejar

συλώ

berauben

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɪˈspɔɪl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: despoylen

In summary

From Middle English despoylen, dispoylen, from Old French despoillier ( > French dépouiller), from Latin dēspoliō, dēspoliāre.