7. (v.i.)spoil to become bad or unfit for use, as food or other perishable substances.
8. spoil to plunder, pillage, or rob.
9. (n.)spoil Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
10. spoil spoils, the emoluments and advantages of publicoffice viewed as won by a victorious political party.
11. spoil waste material, as that which is cast up in excavating.
Definition of 'Spoil'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)spoil (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war) "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
2. (noun)spoil, spoiling, spoilage the act of spoiling something by causingdamage to it "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
3. (verb)spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation the act of stripping and taking by force
4. (verb)botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up 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"
5. (verb)spoil, go bad become unfit for consumption or use "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
7. (verb)pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge treat with excessive indulgence "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
8. (verb)thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
9. (verb)itch, spoil have a strong desire or urge to do something "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
10. (verb)rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder destroy and strip of its possession "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
11. (verb)mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate make imperfect "nothing marred her beauty"
1. (verb)spoil to cause sth good to become bad or unpleasant His comment spoiled the whole evening.; Police spoiled the thieves' plans.
2. spoil to treat sb too well so they complain if they do not receive goodtreatment all the time We have been spoiled by low gas prices in the past.
3. spoil (of food) to become moldy or rotten The cheese spoiled in the heat.
Definition of 'Spoil'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Spoil that which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty
2. (noun)Spoil 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
3. (noun)Spoil that which is gained by strength or effort
4. (noun)Spoil the act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste
6. (noun)Spoil the slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal
7. (verb)Spoil 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
8. (verb)Spoil to seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder
9. (verb)Spoil to cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar
10. (verb)Spoil 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