VERB
掠奪;洗劫;破壞;蹂躪
To despoil a place means to make it less attractive, valuable, or important by taking things away from it or by destroying it.
例句
...people who despoil the countryside.
破壞鄉村景致的人
...a landscape despoiled by coal-mining and heavy industry.
遭到煤礦開采和重工業破壞的景觀