Crossword clues for despoiling
despoiling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Despoil \De*spoil"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Despoiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Despoiling.] [OF. despoiller, F. d['e]pouiller, L. despoliare, despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. Spoil, Despoliation.]
To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair.
--Gower.A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled.
--Macaulay.Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.
--Milton.Syn: To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of despoil English)
Usage examples of "despoiling".
The Volcano Man came sputtering up from underground and started despoiling everything, digging mines and shitting in lakes and killing bison and destroying forests.
The Cheyenne merging with the natural without despoiling its beauty and benefaction, the peaceful Vines "dreaming in the sun," the New Quaker emphasis on simplicity and truth and peacewere the three really all that different?
Of course we brought them in here for safekeeping from the despoiling Achaians.
No, the god Apollo had slain him personally in vengeance for killing Hector and then despoiling his body.
Hardly had he and his prisoner returned to Kehnooryos Atheenahs, however, when he received word that three barbarian kinglets and their armies were in coalition and despoiling the northern themes of his capital's domain.
If your purpose is simply one of despoiling this land, then, moving on to another, you'll find no ally in me.
Another provision was that, from the signing of the alliance henceforth, the nomads were to desist despoiling the countryside and killing or enslaving its inhabitants.
If your purpose is simply one of despoiling this land, then moving on to another, you'll find no ally hi me, quite the contrary, sir.
Anoth provision was that, from the signing of the alliance hei forth, the nomads were to desist the despoiling the coi tryside and killing or enslaving its inhabitants.
Abdallah, the son of Jaafar, a glorious and holy martyr, undertook, with a banner of five hundred horse, the pious and profitable commission of despoiling the infidels.
The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth.
The despoiling of ability has been the purpose of every creed that preached self-sacrifice.
It was said that he owned a homunculus he himself had fathered by despoiling a young girl taken from the fisherfolk.
Raid only to take what we need, no wanton wastage, no despoiling, no burning.