Definition of spoil

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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..

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Spondaic :: Spoliatory (a.) Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.
Booty :: Booty (n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage..
Pillage :: Pillage (n.) That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty..
Work :: Work (n.) Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect..
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Despoil :: Despoil (v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe..
Depredator :: Depredator (n.) One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession..
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
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..
Wany :: Wany (a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Despoiler :: Despoiler (n.) One who despoils.
Plunder :: Plunder (n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud..
Spoilsman :: Spoilsmen (pl. ) of Spoilsma.
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
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..
Boot :: Boot (n.) Booty; spoil.
Reave :: Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic.
Reif :: Reif (n.) Robbery; spoil.
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