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Definition & Synonyms
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• Spoil
- (v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.
- (v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
- (v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
- (n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
- (n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.
- (n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
- (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.
- (n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
- (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.
- (v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
- (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.
- (n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
Synonyms:
Baby, Baffle, Bilk, Blow, Botch, Bumble, Bungle, Cocker, Coddle, Corrupt, Cosset, Cross, Deflower, Despoil, Despoilment, Despoliation, Fluff, Foil, Frustrate, Fumble, Impair, Indulge, Itch, Mar, Mishandle, Muff, Pamper, Plunder, Queer, Rape, Scotch, Spoiling, Spoliation, Thwart, Violate, Vitiate,
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• Spoiler
- (n.) One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
- (n.) One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
Synonyms:
Despoiler, Freebooter, Looter, Pamperer, Pillager, Plunderer, Raider,
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• Spoilsman
- (n.) One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.
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Hope, Compound, Framees, Broaded, Dazzles, Colonnade, Geared, Cursor, Acquiring, Customizes, Avid, Mote, Gear, Apology, Flatter, Colonnade, Lost, Hope, Action, Civil, Debt, Fragrance, Fragrants, Gdes, Pursue, Favorite, Pillow-Case, Gdd, Throat, Invoke, Throat, Fragmentations, Enjoyment, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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