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1. Steal goods; take as spoils
   "During the earthquake people despoiled the stores that were deserted by their owners";
   - plunder, loot, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
    
2. Destroy and strip of its possession
   - rape, spoil, violate, plunder

Derived forms: despoils, despoiled, despoiling

Type of: destroy, ruin, spifflicate, spiflicate, take

Encyclopedia: Despoil