Spoil

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1. Verb

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

2. Verb

To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.

3. Verb

To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.

4. Verb

To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.

5. Verb

To practice plunder or robbery.

6. Verb

To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.

7. Noun

That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

8. Noun

Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.

9. Noun

That which is gained by strength or effort.

10. Noun

The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.

11. Noun

Corruption; cause of corruption.

12. Noun

The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

13. Noun

the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
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