V-T To despoil a place means to make it less attractive, valuable, or important by taking things away from it or by destroying it. 掠夺 [正式]
...people who despoil the countryside.
...掠夺乡村的人。
Along the way, we despoiled most of the land we worked, often turning verdant, natural ecozones into semi-arid deserts.
一路上，我们破坏了大多数我们曾经耕作过的的土地，经常把翠绿的自然生态区变成了半干旱的沙漠。
The robbers despoiled the merchant of his goods.
强盗们洗劫了那商人的财物。
They despoiled the villagers of their belongings.
他们夺走了村民的财物。
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