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Spoil v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spoiled or Spoilt p. pr. & vb. n. Spoiling.]
1. 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 possessions. “Ye shall spoil the Egyptians.”
My sons their old, unhappy sire despise,
Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes. --Pope.
2. To seize by violence; to take by force; to plunder.
No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man. --Mark iii. 27.
3. To cause to decay and perish; to corrupt; to vitiate; to mar.
Spiritual pride spoils many graces. --Jer. Taylor.
4. 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.
spoil
n 1: (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in
war); "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
2: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her
spoiling my dress was deliberate" [syn: spoiling, spoilage]
3: the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoliation,
spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation]
v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the
difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch,
bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub,
screw up, ball up, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix,
bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle,
louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]
2: become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten
before it spoils" [syn: go bad]
3: alter from the original [syn: corrupt]
4: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle,
mollycoddle, indulge]
5: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What
ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing
September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer,
scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk]
6: have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is
itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a
fight" [syn: itch]
7: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the
beautiful country" [syn: rape, despoil, violate, plunder]
8: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair,
deflower, vitiate]
[also: spoilt]
spoilt
adj 1: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or
oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" [syn: spoiled]
2: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: bad, spoiled]
3: affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or
prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urtan districts"
[syn: blighted]