despoiler

掠夺者

词形变化

despoilers 复数 despoilers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.

    1985, Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, New York: Norton, 1987, Chapter 1, Other despoilers of our natural heritage killed bison with even greater abandon, removed the tongue only (considered a great delicacy in some quarters), and left the rest of the carcass to rot.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

spoiler raider freebooter looter pillager plunderer

上位词 2

thief stealer

下位词 4

pirate buccaneer sea-robber sea rover

词源

From Middle English dispoyler, dispoylere, equivalent to despoil + -er.

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