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despoil
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synonyms: rapine ???
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Definition:1. to plunder, to rob2. to destroy by stripping something of all its resources, as cutting down an entire forest3. [obsolete] to undress
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He stammered, choked, with arms outstretched toward the empty places, toward the denuded walls where naught remained but the useless nails and cords. The Watteau, disappeared! The Rubens, carried away! The tapestries taken down! The cabinets, despoiled of their jewels!
Maurice Leblanc. The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
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"Truly, madame, I think so. For the moment." "If you were shown a great heap of dolls, and were set upon them to pluck them to pieces and despoil them for your own advantage, you would pick out the richest and gayest. Say! Would you not?" "Truly yes, madame."
Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities
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He comes to despoil our beloved country.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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she returned to her parents' home to weave funeral wreaths. She found it despoiled. All that was left was the furniture that was absolutely necessary,
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.223 (1970)
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And, for that nothing of her olde gear
She shoulde bring into his house, he bade
That women should despoile her right there;
Of which these ladies were nothing glad
To handle her clothes wherein she was clad:
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Clerk's Tale
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There is a thought that for strength should avail me,
Though both of shelter and kindred despoiled;
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