meaning of spoil2

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 possession.
2.
To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
3.
To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
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.
5.
To practice plunder or robbery.
6.
To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
7.
That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
8.
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.
9.
That which is gained by strength or effort.
10.
The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
11.
Corruption; cause of corruption.
12.
The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
13.
the act of stripping and taking by force


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