Definitions For Despoil

verb

  • Destroy and strip of its possession
  • Steal goods; take as spoils
  • To severely damage or ruin (a place)
  • To forcefully take what is valuable from (a place)

Is Despoil a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
12

The word Despoil is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Despoil in a Sentence

  • The landscape has been despoiled by industrial development.
  • The burglars despoiled the art museum in search of treasures they thought they could sell to a fence

Synonyms for Despoil

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