Definition of spoil

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

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Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless..
Fagend :: Fagend (n.) An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect..
Murder :: Murder (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English..
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty..
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading..
Spondaic :: Spoliatory (a.) Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.
Blend :: Blend (v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
Spoiler :: Spoiler (n.) One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
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..
Spoil :: Spoil (v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather..
Reave :: Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic.
Booty :: Booty (n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage..
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..
Mar :: Mar (v.) To spoil; to ruin.
Heft :: Heft (n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled..
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..
Foray :: Foray (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid..
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
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..
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