despoil

Plural: despoils

Verb

Verb Forms: despoiled, despoiling, despoils

To strip of possessions; plunder.
steal goods; take as spoils
destroy and strip of its possession
To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.

Noun

Plunder; spoliation.

Examples

Her cunning play threatened to DESPOIL the opponent’s lead entirely in Scrabble.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English despoylen, dispoylen, from Old French despoillier ( > French dépouiller), from Latin dēspoliō, dēspoliāre.

Synonyms

foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rape, reave, rifle, spoil, strip, violate

Scrabble Score: 10

despoil: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
despoil: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
despoil: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

despoil: valid Words With Friends Word