Despoiled
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of despoil form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence wordnet
Example
More examples"Of all the personages whose marvelous doings once filled the minds of men, he alone survives. He has outlived all the great gods, and all the impressive and poetic conceptions which once flitted between heaven and earth; these have gone, but Santa Claus remains by virtue of a common understanding that childhood shall not be despoiled of one of its most cherished beliefs."
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