VERB
掠夺;洗劫;破坏;蹂躏
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.
破坏乡村景致的人
...a landscape despoiled by coal-mining and heavy industry.
遭到煤矿开采和重工业破坏的景观