despoil

despoil is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
2. transitive verb. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
3. noun. Spoil.
4. verb. destroy and strip of its possession

   "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

   Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate

5. verb. steal goods; take as spoils

   "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

   Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip

Synonyms

plunder, rape, spoil, violate, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in despoil:

diploes, dipoles, soliped, spoiled

Common word forms

despoils, despoiled, despoiler, despoiling, despoilment

Words from these letters

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