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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Shend :: Shend (n.) To injure, mar, spoil, or harm..
Booty :: Booty (n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage..
Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase..
Despoilment :: Despoilment (n.) Despoliation.
Despoiling :: Despoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despoi.
Depredation :: Depredation (n.) The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land..
Spoilsmen :: Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.
Spoilfive :: Spoiler (n.) One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless..
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
Pet :: Pet (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled..
Wany :: Wany (a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Rug :: Rug (v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
Heft :: Heft (n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled..
Despoil :: Despoil (v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe..
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Spoiling :: Spoilt () of Spoi.
Live :: Live (v. i.) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils..
Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air..
Foray :: Foray (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid..
Depredator :: Depredator (n.) One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
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