Despoil vs Bereave - What's the difference?
despoil | bereave | Synonyms |
To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.
*Macaulay
*:a law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled
*2010 , The Economist , 17 July, p.53:
*:To dreamers in the West, Tibet is a Shangri-La despoiled by Chinese ruthlessness and rapacity.
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
*1614 , (Sir Walter Raleigh), History of the World :
*:The Earl of March, following the plain path which his father had trodden out, despoiled Henry the father, and Edward the son, both of their lives and kingdom.
*1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book 9, 410-11:
*:To intercept thy way, or send thee back / Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.
*1849 , , History of England , Ch.20:
*:A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled .
To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
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*:So syr Persants doughter dyd as her fader bad her / and soo she wente vnto syr Beaumayns bed / & pryuely she dispoylled her / & leid her doune by hym / & thenne he awoke & sawe her & asked her what she was
To deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip.
To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.
To deprive of power; prevent.
To take away someone or something important or close; deprive.
(rare) To destroy life; cut off.
Despoil is a synonym of bereave.
As verbs the difference between despoil and bereave
is that despoil is to deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage while bereave is to deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip.As a noun despoil
is (obsolete) plunder; spoliation.despoil
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- Death bereaved him of his wife.
- The castaways were bereft of hope.
