noun corruption; cause of corruption.
2. spoil ·vi to practice plunder or robbery.
3. spoil ·noun that which is gained by strength or effort.
4. spoil ·noun the act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
5. spoil ·noun the slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
6. spoil ·vt to seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
7. spoil ·noun that which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
8. spoil ·vi to lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
9. spoil ·vt to cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
10. spoil ·vt 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.
11. spoil ·noun public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage;
commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.
12. spoil ·vt 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 possession.