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# despoil

«despoil» in Mova's school dictionary: **Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (despoils, despoiled, despoiling)

### meaning for a pupil

Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure, often by force, and leave it damaged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a wicked knight or giant despoils a land of its gold and cattle.

### examples

- The raiders despoiled the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/#x1)
- The dragon despoiled the castle of its treasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/#x2)
- Do not despoil the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And they despoiled the Egyptians.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.347/)
- [The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.489/)
- [For the LORD despoileth their pasture.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.709/)
- [A son that dealeth shamefully and reproachfully will despoil his father, and chase away his mother.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.555/)
- [For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.642/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «despoil» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.