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Verbit
- (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
- (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
- (ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
- (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
- (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
- (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
- (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
- (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
Substantiivit
- (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.
Esimerkit
- All that herde hym wer amased and sayde: ys nott this he that spoylled them whych called on this name in Jerusalem?
- To do her dye (quoth Vna) were despight, / And shame t'auenge so weake an enimy; / But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.
- Roger, that rich Bishop of Salisbury,[...]spoiled of his goods by King Stephen, [...]through grief ran mad, spoke and did he knew not what.
- Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil.
- No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man.
- Spiritual pride spoils many graces.
- "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. […]"
- ‘This is a great day for us. Let us not spoil it by saying the wrong thing, by promoting a culture of revenge, or by failing to treat the former president with respect.’
- Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil.
- Dr Jonathan Grant (Letters, April 22) feels the best way to show his disaffection with political parties over Iraq is to spoil his ballot paper.
- Spoilt ballot papers.
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