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verb

Spoil v. t. (past & past part. spoilt or spoiled; pres. part. spoiling)

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 possessions. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." "My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes."

To seize by violence; to take by force; to plunder. "No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man."

To cause to decay and perish; to corrupt; to vitiate; to mar. "Spiritual pride spoils many graces."

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.

Spoil v. i. (past & past part. spoilt or spoiled; pres. part. spoiling)

To practice plunder or robbery. "Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil."

To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.

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"Spoiled" Quotes from Famous Books

... weak—in that spot and one other. He doesn't know even yet that when I fell for his game I fell hard enough to wake me up. He thinks I haven't a suspicion but what it was just an accident that laid Sutton out, two years back—just a lucky punch of The Red's that went across and spoiled our perfect frame-up. And he hasn't a suspicion that I know he was sure The Red was going to clean up Sutton, just as surely as they went to the ...

— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans

... wold have you (besides the embroidred sute) bring me a plaine riding suite, with an innocent coate, the suites I haue for horsebacke being so spotted and spoiled that they are not to be seene out of this island. The lining of the coate, and the petit toies are referred to your greate discretion, provided there want nothing when it comes to be put on. I doe not remember there was a belt, or a hat-band, in your ...

— The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete • Anthony Hamilton

... a letter twitting me for a broken promise in not joining him: "We are reasonably jolly, but rurally so; going to bed o' nights at ten, and bathing o' mornings at half-past seven; and not drugging ourselves with those dirty and spoiled waters of Lethe that flow round the base of the great pyramid." Then, after mention of the friends who had left him, Sheriff Gordon, the Leeches, Lemon, Egg and Stone: "reflection and pensiveness ...

— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... hijo mio!" counsels Gaspar in a soothing tone, intended to curb the excitement of the fiery youth; "I don't think there will be any need for you either to enter the town, or lay down your life in it. Certainly neither, unless my plan get spoiled by the ill luck that's been so long hanging about us. It isn't much of a plan after all; only to find one of the Indians, to whom I did a service when they were living at their old place. I cured the man of a complaint, which, but for the medicine I administered, would have carried ...

— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid

... Paul could not shake off his depression, which deepened until every one wondered what was the matter with him. When the others came home, full of all they had done and seen, the children's pleasure was greatly spoiled by his ...

— Paul the Courageous • Mabel Quiller-Couch

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