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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Wany :: Wany (a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Pillage :: Pillage (n.) That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty..
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
Rug :: Rug (v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
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..
Despoiled :: Despoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Despoi.
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
Stick-lac :: Stickit (a.) Stuck; spoiled in making.
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..
Spoilsman :: Spoilsmen (pl. ) of Spoilsma.
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..
Live :: Live (v. i.) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils..
Despoil :: Despoil (n.) Spoil.
Spoilt :: Spoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Spoi.
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..
Incorrupt :: Incorrupt (a.) Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.
Bedevil :: Bedevil (v. t.) To spoil; to corrupt.
Reave :: Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic.
Mammothrept :: Mammothrept (n.) A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.
Heft :: Heft (n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled..
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