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(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
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Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.
verb
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To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
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To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
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To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
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To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
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To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
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To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
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Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
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Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil.
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To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
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To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
Examples of spoil in a Sentence
Oh, you only spoil things for me.
You're going to spoil me.
I don't want to spoil them - or anyone else to spoil them.
Roxanne had a set her cap for him and Adrienne had no intention of being the one to spoil her friends' plans.
Perhaps I spoil her, but really that seems the best plan.
All the columns are Roman or Byzantine, and are the spoil of many ancient cities.
Do not spoil the impression by being obviously inauthentic.
The hat brim may have to be pinned back which would spoil the look.
Not a lot to see - some old walls; numerous shallow pits; spoil heaps.
Looking at this mid-century year, what was there then to spoil the Portuguese idyll?
I won't spoil the story of what happened next!
Even the missing pelmet isn't going to spoil the trip.
Effects of the cessation of colliery spoil dumping on coastal processes.
However, I know canned foods can spoil after a while.
The spoil heaps are generally large and is a rough indication of the age of the sett.
You can spoil yourself with a relaxing fragrant massage during your stay.
Any moment she was going to find my hiding place and spoil my quiet repose.
During construction, a railroad was laid on the dock floor that allowed engines to remove wagons loaded with excavated spoil.
Concentrated on enlarging working area at bottom and making space to stack spoil in not enough people to remove totally.
Terrestrial habitat associated with the breeding areas is quarry spoil, early successional vegetation and surrounding pasture.
Kutuzov alone would not see this and openly expressed his opinion that no fresh war could improve the position or add to the glory of Russia, but could only spoil and lower the glorious position that Russia had gained.
It is important to check that the color won't run from the fabric and spoil a wonderful dress.
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What a way to spoil your favorite kitty!
Obviously some shows are easier to spoil than others.
By a treaty signed at Granada, the French and Spanish kings were to divide the spoil.
Charles of Austria, now emperor, took Milan, Mantua, Naples and Sardinia for his portion of the Italian spoil.
King Victor Emmanuel and Cavour both wrote to Garibaldi urging him not to spoil all by aiming at too much.
Orkhan lent the desired aid; his son Suleiman Pasha, governor of Karassi, crossed into Europe, crushed Cantacuzenus's enemies, and penetrated as far as the Balkans, returning laden with spoil.
When accused of having unfairly distributed the spoil taken at Veii, which was captured by him after a ten years' siege, he went into voluntary exile at Ardea.
This triumph was only obtained, however, after a fierce struggle of ten years, in which the Danes were much hampered by the uncertain and selfish co-operation of their German allies, chief among whom was Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony and Bavaria, who appropriated the lion's share of the spoil.
In 1062 their ships returned from Palermo laden with spoil.
The Pisan fleet of three hundred sail, commanded by the archbishop Pietro Moriconi, attacked the Balearic Isles, where as many as 20,000 Christians were said to be held captive by the Moslems, and returned loaded with spoil and with a multitude of Christian and Moslem prisoners.
The French king seized Metz, which was part of the spoil promised to him by his allies, and Charles made an attempt to regain the city.
To Ammon the Pharaohs attributed all their successful enterprises, and on his temples they lavished their wealth and captured spoil.
One of the first acts of the new king was to lead an army into Syria, where revolt was again rife; he reached and perhaps crossed the Euphrates and returned home to Thebes with seven captive kings of Tikhsi and much spoil.
Tirhaka was energetic in opposing the Assyrian advance, but in 670 B.C. Esarhaddon defeated his army on the border of Egypt, captured Memphis with the royar harem and took great spoil.
There are many ways in which a whipper-in who is not intelligent and alert may spoil sport; indeed, the duke of Beaufort went so far as to declare that "in his experience, with very few exceptions, nine days out of ten that the whipper-in goes out hunting he does more harm than good."
In 455, however, he led an expedition to Rome, stormed the city, which for fourteen days his troops were permitted to plunder, and then returned to Africa laden with spoil.
Time is a very important thing in threshing, since a rainfall might spoil enough grain in one night to buy several machines.
Fortunately for Poland, the tsar and the king of Sweden now quarrelled over the apportionment of the spoil, and at the end of May 1656 Alexius, stimulated by the emperor and the other enemies of Sweden, declared war against her.
Count Romanones, desiring to educate the electors, had been busy establishing schools; but the sweeping victory of the Liberals at the polls2 was probably far more due to the fact that this was the first election held under Seor Mauras Local Administration Act, and that the ignorant electors, indignant at being forced to vote under penalty of a fine, where they did not spoil their ballot papers, voted against the Conservatives as the authors of their grievance.
This experiment was partially successful, but the instinctive dislike of bees to anything of a fibrous nature caused them completely to spoil their work of comb-building in the endeavour to tear or gnaw away the linen threads whenever they got in touch with them.
Alberti came to Rimini, made his design, saw the work begun and then left it to be carried out by very skilful artists, on whom he impressed the necessity of faithfully preserving its general character so as " not to spoil that music."
It would be stupid to go this far and then let a quarrel spoil her plans.
Unlike Jonathan, though, Destiny had natural grandparents to spoil her – and they did.
Don't spoil the evening by bringing up that old bastard!
I do, however, spoil the big death from the previous book, in case anyone 's somehow remained unaware of it.
The endlessly chirpy Winnie doesn't let the fact that she is buried up to the neck in soil spoil her endlessly Happy Days.
Among the spoil was found an old cast iron shoemaker s last, a spade a builder s trowel and a small engine cogwheel.