(v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
(v. t.) To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
(n.) Spoil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despoiled of its land through a series of racial colonial measures, Zimbabwe at independence inherited a gross skew in land ownership.
(2) We have run up debts, despoiled the planet and allowed too many of our institutions to wither.
(3) Sir David Attenborough, who recently discussed climate change in a meeting with US president Barack Obama, said: “I have been involved in arguments about the despoilation of the natural world for many years.
(4) Victors like to forget how they got their spoils, but the despoiled have long memories.
(5) Despoiling of the dead is illegal under the Geneva conventions as well as under US military law.
(6) Thousands of tonnes despoiled the beaches of Cornwall – and thousands more were propelled by winds and currents across the channel towards France.
(7) And, in his case, quite a few headlines created to fit the paper's narrative of minorities in general and Muslims in particular as bad lots, despoilers of society.
(8) From early, delicate watercolours to his cycles of despoiled paintings, this retrospective gives full measure to Kiefer’s preoccupations with German history, the holocaust, mythology and the wretchedness of our age.
(9) Fracking has been linked to air and water pollution, radioactive waste, despoiled land and methane emissions, although this has been disputed by some scientists and the fracking industry.
(10) Deficits in abstractive ability, when they exist, are believed to be due to a schizophrenic patient's inability to prevent task-irrelevant information that originates in long-term memory from spilling into and despoiling the operations of working memory.
(11) For too long the governments of the region, often with international encouragement, have looked upon the sea as a bottomless resource pit to be despoiled at will.
(12) The Guardian feared the icon would be despoiled – as if the World Service audience would be treated to a steady diet of stories about car crashes on the M25 instead of analyses of Indian politics.
(13) How you can take on their surface effects – the black turtleneck, listening to Bob Dylan, friends with Bono – yet still pay your Chinese workers a pitiful amount, despoil the environment, do shady stock transactions, pay no tax.” Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine first look review – Apple founder's sour side Read more Gibney says Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell initially offered to help with the project but then backed off.
(14) So extensive is the rout of pre-modern spiritual and metaphysical traditions that it is hard to even imagine their resurrection, let alone the restoration, on a necessarily large scale, of a non-instrumental view of human life (and the much-despoiled natural world).
(15) Poundbury is a de luxe version of the gross and insensitive "executive" homes that so despoil Britain.
(16) And it's all done without despoiling so much as a blade of grass.
(17) It was the worst spill in Nigeria in 13 years in a part of that country where the oil and gas industry has been despoiling the environment for more than 50 years, on a scale that dwarfs the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico by a wide margin.
Rape
Definition:
(n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
(n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
(n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
(n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
(n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
(n.) That which is snatched away.
(n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
(v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
(v. i.) To rob; to pillage.
(n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
(n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(2) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(4) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(5) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
(6) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(7) This report concerns the rape of a woman by a stranger.
(8) It may be no coincidence that rape was an integral part of the mass killings in Rwanda 14 years ago.
(9) Odyssey House has conducted an annual marathon therapy group for women who are rape survivors.
(10) This is understandable: marital rape has not been a part of India’s discourse.
(11) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(12) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(13) The results show that in the majority of victims the response to rape within the first two weeks displays the symptoms of PTSD, although the criterion of duration is not fulfilled.
(14) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
(15) Beatings with metal bars and cables were followed by so-called “security checks”, during which women in particular were subjected to rape and sexual assault by male guards.
(16) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
(17) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(18) The retired judge’s report outlines multiple rapes and indecent assaults on children by Savile, which she claims were all “in some way associated with the BBC”.
(19) Those factors that have determined the overall relationships between men and women are reviewed in an attempt to explain rape and wife-beating.
(20) The capacity of new selected sorts of rape and winter cress oils to decrease a high cholesterol level in the blood and liver was studied in "cholesterol" rats.