Definition of spoil

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Spoil (n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.

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Ravager :: Ravager (n.) One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler..
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..
Mammothrept :: Mammothrept (n.) A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.
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..
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..
Murder :: Murder (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English..
Spoiler :: Spoilable (a.) Capable of being spoiled.
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
Spoil :: Spoil (n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty..
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..
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..
Spoliatory :: Spoliator (n.) One who spoliates; a spoiler.
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..
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..
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
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..
Manubial :: Manubial (a.) Belonging to spoils; taken in war.
Spoiler :: Spoiler (n.) One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
Spoilsmen :: Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.
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..
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