Definition of spoil

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Spoil (v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.

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Prey :: Prey (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder..
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..
Prey :: Prey (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase..
Pet :: Pet (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled..
Mar :: Mar (v.) To spoil; to ruin.
Depredate :: Depredate (v. t.) To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.
Plunder :: Plunder (v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers..
Despoiler :: Despoiler (n.) One who despoils.
Spoil :: Spoil (v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather..
Spoilful :: Spoilfive (n.) A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled..
Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless..
Corrupt :: Corrupt (a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Spoliatory :: Spoliator (n.) One who spoliates; a spoiler.
Heft :: Heft (n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled..
Murder :: Murder (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English..
De- :: De- () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc..
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Bedevil :: Bedevil (v. t.) To spoil; to corrupt.
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