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Definition of "despoils" [despoils]

  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despoil. (verb)

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Use "despoils" in a sentence
  • ""The bulk of the proposed new building significantly destroys the continuity of the elegant decorative historic street wall and despoils the special aesthetic character of the Ladies' Mile Historic District streetscape," said a resolution at the time from the community board."
  • "Julia Child grew up on Pasadena Avenue, just a few blocks from the start of the parade, and practically everything Ms. Deen has done both exploits and despoils the culinary movement Child did so much to prod into being."
  • "All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins."
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