despoil

verb

1. (transitive)To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.

   “a law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled”

   “Ripton was familiar with the rod, a monster much despoiled of his terrors by intimacy.”

   “They've come to witness the Beginning. The rebirth of Paradise, despoiled by mankind.”

2. (transitive)To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.

   “The Earl of March, following the plain path which his father had trodden out, despoiled Henry the father, and Edward the son, both of their lives and kingdom.”

   “To intercept thy way, or send thee back / Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.”

   “A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled.”

3. (obsolete, reflexive, transitive)To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.

   “So syr Persants doughter dyd as her fader bad her / and soo she wente vnto syr Beaumayns bed / & pryuely she dispoylled her / & leid her doune by hym / & thenne he awoke & sawe her & asked her what she was”

noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Plunder; spoliation.

   “’Tis done;—despoil and desolation / O’er Rylstone’s fair domain have blown; […]”