despoil

«despoil» in Mova's school dictionary: Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (despoils, despoiled, despoiling)

meaning for a pupil

Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure, often by force, and leave it damaged. tree →

sense 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 →
• The dragon despoiled the castle of its treasure. tree →
• Do not despoil the forest. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And they despoiled the Egyptians.
• The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word.
• For the LORD despoileth their pasture.
• A son that dealeth shamefully and reproachfully will despoil his father, and chase away his mother.
• For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «despoil» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.