Despoil: alternatives and connections

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

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To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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Taken.

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Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

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Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

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A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

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The act of plundering.

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The act of pillaging; robbery.

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To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

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To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

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Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

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To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]

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To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

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