Definition of spoil

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Spoil (n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.

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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..
Spoliation :: Spoliate (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.
Deform :: Deform (v. t.) To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
Wany :: Wany (a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Despoil :: Despoil (n.) Spoil.
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..
Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase..
Spoliatory :: Spoliator (n.) One who spoliates; a spoiler.
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
Boot :: Boot (n.) Booty; spoil.
Botch :: Botch (n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work..
Overleaven :: Overleaven (v. t.) To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil..
Despoiling :: Despoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despoi.
Despoiled :: Despoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Despoi.
Heft :: Heft (n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled..
Prey :: Prey (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
Despoil :: Despoil (v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe..
Blend :: Blend (v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
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