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n.
One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
pl.
of Spoilsman
a.
Capable of being spoiled.
n.
A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.
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.
a.
Stuck; spoiled in making.
a.
Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.
v.
Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
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.
n.
To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.
a.
Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
n.
Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
v. t.
To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
v. t.
To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Spoil
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Spoil
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.
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