to make a place less attractive especially by taking things away from it by force:
Despoil
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To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage;
to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
Despoil meaning & definition 1 of Despoil.
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To [forcefully] [take away], [arrogate], appropriate.
Despoil meaning & definition 2 of Despoil.
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Steal or violently remove valuable possessions from; plunder.
Despoil meaning & definition 3 of Despoil.
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