transitive. To deprive or strip (a person or group of people) of something by force, to rob; (also) to despoil. Also figurative. rare after 17th cent.

To plunder, spoil; to deprive totally (whether justly or otherwise) of possessions, or of something… without const. Obsolete.

transitive. To strip (a person or place) of money or goods; esp. to rob or steal from (a person); to pillage or plunder (a place); (also) to oppress…

transitive. To plunder or pillage (a place, house, etc.); to steal from. Also in extended use.

transitive. To rob or strip (a person) of possessions; to pillage or plunder (a place); (also) to oppress (a person or institution) with excessive…

transitive. To strip of possessions by violence; to plunder, rob, spoil, n.. a person.

transitive. To exact a ransom from (a person); to plunder or rob (a person, a country, etc.); to rob or deprive (a person) of something; to cheat…

transitive. To strip or despoil (a dead or helpless person); esp. to strip (a defeated or slain enemy) of arms and armour. (Cf. 6) Now archaic.

To strip (persons) of goods or possessions by violence or force; to plunder, rob, despoil. Also figurative. Now rare or archaic.

transitive. figurative and in figurative context. To strip (a person) of possessions or money; to despoil, rob, swindle. Cf. pluck, v. 6. Obsolete.

transitive. To strip of possessions by violence; to plunder, rob, spoil, n.. a place; also transferred and figurative.

transitive. To plunder, pillage, or rob. Obsolete.

To deprive, despoil, pillage, or rob of something. †Also const. from (= of).

transitive. To despoil or plunder (persons, etc.).

transitive. To despoil.

transitive. To rob or strip bare of something. Also in figurative contexts.

transitive. figurative. To plunder or pillage by or as by excessive taxation; to rob, fleece, strip, cheat; to despoil. Also with of. Now rare (slang…

transitive. to pill and poll (also to poll and pill): to strip (a person, place, or institution) bare by robbery or pillage; to plunder; to ruin by…

transitive. to pill and poll (also to poll and pill): to strip (a person, place, or institution) bare by robbery or pillage; to plunder; to ruin by…

transitive. To despoil.

transitive. To pillage, plunder; to seize by piracy. Cf. pill, v.1 7a.

To despoil (a person) of (substance) by consuming it. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. figurative. To rob, despoil. Also occasionally used intransitively. Obsolete.

transitive. Scottish. To rob (a person). Obsolete.

to pillage completely.

To strip (a person, city, country, etc.) of money, property, etc., as a sheep is stripped of its fleece; to make (any one) pay to the uttermost; to…

to prey on, to prey upon. intransitive. To plunder or pillage; to rob or raid, to target for robberies. Also †to prey over. Now passing into sense 2c.

transitive. To plunder, rob. Also intransitive.

= disvalise, v.

= despoil, v.

to make spoil of, to pillage or plunder; to extort or collect goods, provisions, etc., from.

transitive. To pillage, plunder.

to peel and poll and variants: = to pill and poll at pill, v.1 10. Obsolete.

transitive. To prey upon, to make a prey of; to plunder, pillage. Obsolete (or nonce-wd)

transitive. To deprive of something. rare. In later use chiefly in passive.

transitive. To strip (any one) of his baggage; to rob, plunder.

In various figurative expressions: †two feathers out of a goose: a very small part of anything. †to gain more feathers: (of a rumour) to assume…

Destruction. to make stroy of, to make spoil of, pillage.

transitive. To spoil or despoil; to rob or deprive of something.

transitive. To steal from (a person or place).

(See quot. 1725.)

transitive. Originally Scottish. To plunder completely; (also) to cheat or clean (a person) out of money. Cf. rump, n.1 phrases 2.

(transitive) to assail or prey upon after the manner of a vampire.

slang. To deprive of or cause to give up something; to rob, ‘fleece’, ‘bleed’. Also transferred to rob (a vessel) of some of its contents.

transitive. To pluck; to strip of feathers, wool, etc. Frequently figurative: to rob or plunder, to fleece; (also) to scold.

transitive. = vampire v. at vampire, n. derivatives.