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

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Examples

  • 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.

    Jonathan Gold On Paula Deen As Rose Parade Grand Marshal: "Absolutely Horrifying" Colin Sterling 2010

  • 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.

    Jonathan Gold On Paula Deen As Rose Parade Grand Marshal: "Absolutely Horrifying" Colin Sterling 2010

  • "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.

    Project Retains Its Edgy Design Laura Kusisto 2011

  • 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.

    Jonathan Gold On Paula Deen As Rose Parade Grand Marshal: "Absolutely Horrifying" Colin Sterling 2010

  • 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.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • But "while that was music to the ears of everyone in the audience here in Port Sulphur, LA," Kirstner reports, after 3 months of failed attempts at plugging the BP oil rig blowout, all are cautious that this time it really worked, and most are deeply troubled by all the oil that has been spewed and now despoils the Gulf, one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world.

    Wendy Gordon: Go Below the Surface to See the Real Eco-Disaster from the Gulf Oil Spill 2010

  • But "while that was music to the ears of everyone in the audience here in Port Sulphur, LA," Kirstner reports, after 3 months of failed attempts at plugging the BP oil rig blowout, all are cautious that this time it really worked, and most are deeply troubled by all the oil that has been spewed and now despoils the Gulf, one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world.

    Wendy Gordon: Go Below the Surface to See the Real Eco-Disaster from the Gulf Oil Spill 2010

  • Ravenous, he mows the lawn of her salad; despoils her delicate capers.

    Hungry 2010

  • The hope is that they would trap incoming oil before it despoils the islands.

    Don’t Just ‘Do Something’ 2010

  • And once the oil company despoils the oceans with millions of gallons of black goop, or the criminally greedy mining company allows its workers to perish in an unsafe mine, government must intervene to restore a regulatory framework and rein in corporate excess.

    David A. Love: Dysfunctional Politics Begets Suicidal Policies 2010

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