despoil
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loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, ransack, sack
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Here in a primitive wilderness despoiled by European invaders, where black men and women are rounded up, murdered and hanged from trees, a much farther-reaching tragedy comes into startling focus. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: ‘The Nightingale’ is a brilliant, horrifying tale of revenge," 15 Aug. 2019 Here in a primitive wilderness despoiled by European invaders, where black men and women are rounded up, murdered and hanged from trees, a much farther-reaching tragedy comes into startling focus. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’ is a brilliant, horrifying tale of revenge," 1 Aug. 2019 The snake had entered Eden, to despoil all that was innocent. — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, "‘The Loudest Voice’ Review: A Fox in the Hen House," 27 June 2019 Sitting Bull was a Sioux chief who saw his people slaughtered, despoiled, and dispossessed before he himself was killed. — Marc-olivier Bherer, Harper's magazine, "No Reservations," 10 May 2019 Many Old World places—Venice, most painfully—have been largely despoiled by this mass tourism, no longer American alone, but for so long American led. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "Europe and America Seventy-Five Years After D Day," 6 June 2019 The people whose class envy and resentment extends to a desire to despoil the rich at death are not Trump voters but the New York Times’s own upper-middle-class readership. — WSJ, "Dogs Bite Men and Trumps Duck Taxes," 5 Oct. 2018 The movie — showing Friday and Saturday at midnight at the IFC Center in a good 35-millimeter print — opens in a dank, despoiled Britain ruled in the name of Homeland Security. — J. Hoberman, New York Times, "Still Stoking Terror: The Hopeless World of ‘Children of Men’," 14 Mar. 2018 The New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee had denied a crucial permit for the project, judging the project’s huge towers could despoil the state’s scenic rural countryside and affect its important tourism industry. — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, "Mass., utilities cut ties with Northern Pass power line project," 28 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'despoil.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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