Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Despoil

Despoil , transitive verb

[Old French despoiller, French dépouiller, Latin despoliare, despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Compare Spoil, Despoliation.]

1.
To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
2.
To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. — Gower
A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. — Macaulay
Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. — Milton

despoil , noun

Spoil. [Obsolete] — Wolsey