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# despoiled

verb (despoil, despoils, despoiled, despoiling)

«despoiled» 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

To despoil is to rob a place or person of its valuable things, often by force, leaving them with nothing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoiled/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, heroes or raiders take gold, jewels and treasure from a castle, a town or a captured people.

### Examples

- The raiders despoiled the village of its food and gold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoiled/#x1)
- The giant's castle was despoiled by the brave knight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoiled/#x2)
- They despoiled the ship and left the sailors with nothing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoiled/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

in stories, heroes or raiders take gold, jewels and treasure from a castle, a town or a captured people.

### Examples

- The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word. (Prophets ISA.24.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/despoiled/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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