despoil

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

de·spoil [despoil despoils despoiled despoiling] BrE [dɪˈspɔɪl] NAmE [dɪˈspɔɪl] verb ~ sth (of sth) (literary)
to steal sth valuable from a place; to make a place less attractive by damaging or destroying it
Syn: ↑plunder
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Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French despoillier, from Latin despoliare ‘rob, plunder’ (from spolia ‘spoil’).

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  rape, spoil, violate, plunder, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray