despoiler vs stealer

despoiler and stealer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
despoiler	Yes	No	No	No
stealer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stealer is a hypernym of despoiler; that is, stealer is a word with a broader meaning than despoiler:

despoiler: someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
stealer: a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

Other hypernyms of despoiler include thief.

despoiler (noun)	stealer (noun)
someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)	a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it