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v. t.
To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
pl.
of Spoilsman
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.
a.
Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
n.
One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
a.
Stuck; spoiled in making.
v. i.
To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
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.
n.
To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.
imp. & p. p.
of Spoil
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Spoil
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.
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.
a.
Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.
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.
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.
n.
Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
a.
Capable of being spoiled.
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.
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