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Despoiler

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Noun

1. despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler

someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Despoiler

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verb
(transitive)
to strip or deprive by force; plunder; rob; loot

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Despoiler

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verb transitive
to deprive of something of value by or as by force; rob; plunder

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Despoiler

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tr.v. de·spoiled, de·spoil·ing, de·spoils
1. To deprive of something valuable, especially by force; rob: The invaders despoiled the town of its art treasures. He was despoiled of his inheritance by crooked lawyers.
2. To ruin, especially by destroying or removing what is valuable: "a landscape that had been raped and despoiled by coal mining" (George Black).

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