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Adjective despoiled has 1 sense
- despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked - having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
Antonym: preserved (indirect, via destroyed)
Verb despoil has 2 senses
- plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray - steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
--1 is one way to take
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Somebody ----s something
- rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder - destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
--2 is one way to destroy, ruin
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Somebody ----s something
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