despoil
- v steal goods; take as spoils
- v destroy and strip of its possession
- States' rights, "public plunderers," "special privileges," trusts which "despoil the people.
- But then 1967 awakened many of its citizens to the fact that conscienceless affluence can not only despoil the environment and drive a deprived underclass to the brink of rebellion .
- But 1967 awakened many of its citizens to the fact that conscienceless affluence can not only despoil the environment and drive a deprived underclass to the brink of .