despoil

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object '''of''' their possessions etc.; to rob.
  3. Verb.  (obsolete, transitive) To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
  4. Noun.  (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

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