defoiling

Verb

defoil (third-person singular simple present defoils, present participle defoiling, simple past and past participle defoiled)

1. To defile or despoil.
   • A murder'd body huge beside him stood, Of head and right hand both but lately spoiled, His left hand bore the head, whose visage good Both pale and wan with dust and gore defoiled, Yet spake, though dead, with whose sad words the blood Forth at his lips in huge abundance boiled:— Fly Argillan, from...1853, Torquato Tasso, Edward Fairfaix, Leigh Hunt, Godfrey of Bulloigne, Or: The Recovery of Jerusalem, page 252