despoiled

«despoiled» in Mova's school dictionary: to rob a place or person of its valuable things, often by… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (despoil, despoils, despoiled, despoiling)

meaning for a pupil

To despoil is to rob a place or person of its valuable things, often by force, leaving them with nothing. tree →

sense 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 →
• The giant's castle was despoiled by the brave knight. tree →
• They despoiled the ship and left the sailors with nothing. 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.

Trees and pragmatics

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