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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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Etymology of 'Spoilt'

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"Spoilt" Quotes from Famous Books

... "It is most tiresome," he thought, "that this priest is leaving Paris before me, for indeed if I have need of spiritual help or counsel, to whom shall I go? It is clearly written that I must end as I have begun, alone, but ... but ... solitude under these conditions is alarming. I am no spoilt child, whatever the abbe ...

— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

... without discipline) is not only inconsequential and shallow, but dangerous to honour and to sincere happiness. When life remains lost in sense or reverts to it entirely, humanity itself is atrophied. And humanity is tormented and spoilt when, as more often happens, a man disbelieving in reason and out of humour with his world, abandons his soul to loose whimseys and passions that play a quarrelsome game there, like so many ill-bred children. Nevertheless, compared with the worldling's mental mechanism and rhetoric, ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... counters for the purpose, the dealer paying an additional stake. The pool thus formed goes to the player who succeeds in winning three tricks in one hand; but if neither player succeeds in doing so, the game is said to be "spoilt," and the amount remains in the pool, the players contributing for the next round only one coin or [104] counter, and paying that number into the pool each deal until one of the party succeeds in winning three ...

— Round Games with Cards • W. H. Peel

... I had nearly spoilt all by an exclamation, but I held myself back. I saw she was dreaming awake and was unconscious ...

— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck

... anxiety, was that, seeing me spend so long a time upon my statue, the Duke himself might get disgusted; which indeed did afterwards happen. The other was that I had several journeymen who in my absence were up to two kinds of mischief; first, they spoilt my piece, and then they did as little work as possible. These arguments made his Excellency consent that I should only go to ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

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