0 past simple and past participle of despoil
1 to make a place less attractive especially by taking things away from it by force:
Many of the tombs had been despoiled.
Despoiled beaches are a product of colliery waste tipping.
Nor should the despoiled citizen place too much reliance on having the wind tempered by a financial hardship tribunal.
In my constituency there are fourteenth century churches of great architectural value which are suffering from mining subsidence and are badly despoiled and depreciated.
I cannot see the force of the arguments that our countryside has already been despoiled in other ages.
Increased access to a landscape which is despoiled, degraded, diminished and damaged offers nothing.
But this does not mean that land is being despoiled at that rate.
Future generations will have to live with a legacy of beautiful glens and valleys despoiled by ill-conceived private forestry developments.
I ask him to ensure that many applications are turned down, for good renewable energy does not mean despoiled countryside.
