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The answer DESPOIL has 37 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of despoil in various dictionaries:
verb - steal goods
verb - destroy and strip of its possession
To sack; plunder.
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| steal or violently remove valuable possessions from plunder. |
| to make a place less attractive especially by taking things away from it by force: |
| Steal or violently remove valuable possessions from plunder. |
| To sack plunder. |
| To deprive of something valuable by force rob: a region despoiled of its scenic beauty by unchecked development. |
| steal goods take as spoils |
| destroy and strip of its possession |
| Despoil might refer to |
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| Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting. The term is also used in a broader sense to describe egregious instances of theft and embezzlement, such as the "plundering" of private or public assets by governments.The proceeds of all these activities can be described as booty, loot, plunder, spoils, or pillage.* In armed conflict, pillage is prohibited by international law, and constitutes a war crime. |