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Examples of despoil
despoil
They can more readily employ women and are less likely to despoil the environment.
From the economist.com
We are millennia beyond the early Bronze Age, on a crowded planet we despoil.
From the npr.org
It's important not to despoil hundreds of square miles of the environment.
From the economist.com
It argued many signs make driving dangerous and despoil the countryside.
From the dailymail.co.uk
If you let cattle drink from streams, for example, they might despoil riverbank habitat.
From the abcnews.go.com
With global free-market capitalism we can now despoil the entire planet.
From the guardian.co.uk
Why should we allow this to despoil our countryside when there would be little benefit for us?
From the telegraph.co.uk
They despoil our natural areas and then gouge us at the pump, all the while posting obscenely huge profits.
From the dailynews.com
How do we have people among us who think it is OK to go and harm and despoil their communities in this way?
From the independent.co.uk
- Plunder: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
- Rape: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
- (despoiled) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
- (despoilment) spoil: the act of stripping and taking by force
- Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster, or rioting...
- Plunder; spoliation; To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob; To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress
