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# despoil

verb (despoils, despoiled, despoiling)

«despoil» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure, often by force, and leave it damaged. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/#m1)

### In the lessons

in old tales, a wicked knight or giant despoils a land of its gold and cattle.

### Examples

- The raiders despoiled the village. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/#x1)
- The dragon despoiled the castle of its treasure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/#x2)
- Do not despoil the forest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

To rob and strip someone of what they own, often violently.

**Interpretation.** Proverbs warns that God defends the poor and harms those who rob them, and that a child who robs a parent shames the family.

### Examples

- They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked. (Writings JOB.24.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/despoil/#x1)
- For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them. (Writings PRO.22.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/despoil/#x2)
- A son that dealeth shamefully and reproachfully will despoil his father, and chase away his mother. (Writings PRO.19.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/despoil/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «despoil» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«despoil» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/despoil.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «despoil» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/despoil/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«despoil» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/despoil.html) on Mova free.