despoiler

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English dispoyler, dispoylere, equivalent to despoil +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === === Noun === despoiler (plural despoilers) 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,[2] 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. === References === “despoiler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === leprosied, spoilered