Definition of spoil

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

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Manubial :: Manubial (a.) Belonging to spoils; taken in war.
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy..
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..
Spoilt :: Spoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Spoi.
Despoiling :: Despoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despoi.
Stick-lac :: Stickit (a.) Stuck; spoiled in making.
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..
Spondaic :: Spoliatory (a.) Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.
Cockney :: Cockney (n.) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
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..
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..
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..
Spoliatory :: Spoliator (n.) One who spoliates; a spoiler.
Reave :: Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic.
Spoilsmonger :: Spoilsman (n.) One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service..
Deform :: Deform (v. t.) To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
Spoil :: Spoil (v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather..
Musty :: Musty (n.) Spoiled by age; rank; stale.
Wany :: Wany (a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Ravager :: Ravager (n.) One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler..
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