DESPOIL


Meaning of DESPOIL in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

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

...people who ~ the countryside.

VERB: V n

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