spoil🔊

(archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour.

(archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil.

(archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).

(obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. (19th c.)

To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.

To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.

(of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.

To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.

To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.

(aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.

To be very eager (for something).

(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.

(archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.

Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.