verb/de.pu.je/
to skin (an animal); to rob, despoil, rip off; to count (votes); to go through (mail); to peruse, examine in detail; to strip, denude (of clothes, possessions etc.); to divest oneself of
“À Amiens y a que des Noirs et des bougnoules, des crouilles t'y vas tu crois que t'en Afrique. Faut pas aller là-bas, c'est sûr que tu te fais dépouiller.” — In Amiens there's only blacks and bougnoules, you go there and you think you're in Africa. Don't go there, you're sure to get ripped off.
Synonyms: détrousser
Inherited from Middle French dépouiller, despouiller, from Old French despoillier, from Latin dēspoliāre. Compare Catalan despullar, Romanian despuia.