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Definition spoil

Etymology

From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoli?re, present active infinitive of spoli? (“pillage, ruin, spoil”).

Verb

spoil (third-person singular simple present spoils, present participle spoiling, simple past and past participle spoiled or spoilt)

1. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. [from 14th c.]
2. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil. [from 14th c.]
3. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). [from 14th c.]
4. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. [14th-19th c.]
5. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. [from 16th c.]
6. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.]
7. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. [from 17th c.]
8. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it. [from 19th c.]
9. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.

Noun

spoil (plural spoils)

1. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
2. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.

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