Definition of spoil

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Spoil (v. t.) 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..

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Spoil :: Spoil (n.) 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..
Direption :: Direption (n.) The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away..
Spoiler :: Spoilable (a.) Capable of being spoiled.
Stick-lac :: Stickit (a.) Stuck; spoiled in making.
Manubial :: Manubial (a.) Belonging to spoils; taken in war.
Cockney :: Cockney (n.) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
Deface :: Deface (v. t.) To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record..
Live :: Live (v. i.) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils..
Work :: Work (n.) Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect..
Shend :: Shend (n.) To injure, mar, spoil, or harm..
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Heft :: Heft (n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled..
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
Spoilsmen :: Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.
Murder :: Murder (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English..
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
Despoil :: Despoil (n.) Spoil.
Foray :: Foray (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid..
Overleaven :: Overleaven (v. t.) To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil..
Spondaic :: Spoliatory (a.) Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.
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