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despoil

/dih-spoil/US // dɪˈspɔɪl //UK // (dɪˈspɔɪl) //

蹂躏,毁坏,掠夺,搜刮

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.

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Examples

  • So I called Bergman and said, “Do you mind if I despoil your script?”

  • The impression is left that this project would despoil a virginal natural landscape.

  • Still, I did not relinquish my pious purpose to despoil that public treasury Egyptian quoted heretofore.

  • Time was precious; he therefore hastened to despoil his victim, in whose vestments he clothed himself.

  • This was when, at some moment of leisure, he contrived to find time to despoil himself of his exuvia.

  • His name is used to bamboozle the people, to despoil them, and to make them patient asses under their burdens.

  • Even in times of war, neither Jew nor Mohammedan ventures to despoil and profane the sepulchre of Ezekiel.