Definition of spoil

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

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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..
Despoil :: Despoil (v. t.) To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
Rug :: Rug (v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
Waste :: Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..
Disappoint :: Disappoint (v. t.) To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil..
Forage :: Forage (v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil..
Foray :: Foray (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid..
Corrupt :: Corrupt (a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Spoiler :: Spoilable (a.) Capable of being spoiled.
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
Manubial :: Manubial (a.) Belonging to spoils; taken in war.
Wany :: Wany (a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.
Furry :: Furry (a.) Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils..
Spoil :: Spoil (v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.
Direption :: Direption (n.) The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away..
Prey :: Prey (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder..
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..
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty..
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