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spoil

1. verb /spɔɪl/

a) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil.

To do her dye (quoth Vna) were despight, / And shame tauenge so weake an enimy; / But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.

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

Roger, that rich Bishop of Salisbury, [...] spoiled of his goods by King Stephen, [...] through grief ran mad, spoke and did he knew not what.

Syn: damage, destroy, ruin, coddle, indulge, mollycoddle

2. noun /spɔɪl/

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

b) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.

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