1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
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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
   - spoiling, spoilage 
3. The act of stripping and taking by force
   - spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation

Derived forms: spoilt, spoils, spoiling

See also: spoilage, spoiler, spoliation

Type of: damage, decay, desire, destroy, do by, fail, forbid, foreclose, forestall, go wrong, handle, injury, miscarry, modify, pillage, pillaging, plundering, preclude, prevent, ruin, spifflicate, spiflicate, stolen property, treat, want

Encyclopedia: Spoil

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