despoil in Latin
despoil in Latin is praedor — despoil means to rob a place or person of everything valuable, as in raiding or pillaging.
despoil in Latin
praedor
(transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
What does "despoil" mean?
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verb To rob a place or person of everything valuable, as in raiding or pillaging.
"To dreamers in the West, Tibet is a Shangri-La despoiled by Chinese ruthlessness and rapacity."
- verb To use violence to take someone's belongings away from them.
- verb To take someone's clothes off; to undress them.
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despoil in a sentence
- To dreamers in the West, Tibet is a Shangri-La despoiled by Chinese ruthlessness and rapacity.
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What is "despoil" in Latin?
"despoil" in Latin is praedor. despoil means: To rob a place or person of everything valuable, as in raiding or pillaging.
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