DESPOIL


Meaning of DESPOIL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪspɔɪl ]

( despoils, despoiling, despoiled)

To despoil a place means to make it less attractive, valuable, or important by taking things away from it or by destroying it. ( FORMAL )

...people who despoil the countryside.

VERB : V n

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