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spoilless

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spoil

  [spoil] verb, spoiled or spoilt, spoil⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to damage severely or harm (something), esp. with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
2. to diminish or impair the quality of; affect detrimentally: Bad weather spoiled their vacation.
3. to impair, damage, or harm the character or nature of (someone) by unwise treatment, excessive indulgence, etc.: to spoil a child by pampering him.
4. Archaic. to strip (persons, places, etc.) of goods, valuables, etc.; plunder; pillage; despoil.
5. Archaic. to take or seize by force.
–verb (used without object)
6. to become bad, or unfit for use, as food or other perishable substances; become tainted or putrid: Milk spoils if not refrigerated.
7. to plunder, pillage, or rob.
–noun
8. Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
9. the act of plundering.
10. an object of plundering.
11. Usually, spoils.
a. the emoluments and advantages of public office viewed as won by a victorious political party: the spoils of office.
b. prizes won or treasures accumulated: a child's spoils brought home from a party.
12. waste material, as that which is cast up in mining, excavating, quarrying, etc.
13. an imperfectly made object, damaged during the manufacturing process.
—Idiom
14. be spoiling for, Informal. to be very eager for; be desirous of: It was obvious that he was spoiling for a fight.
Origin:
1300–50; (v.) ME spoilen < OF espoillier < L spoliāre to despoil, equiv. to spoli(um) booty + -āre inf. suffix; (n.) deriv. of the v. or < OF espoille, deriv. of espoillier

Related forms:
spoil⋅a⋅ble, adjective
spoilless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. disfigure, destroy, demolish, mar. Spoil, ruin, wreck agree in meaning to reduce the value, quality, usefulness, etc., of anything. Spoil is the general term: to spoil a delicate fabric. Ruin implies doing completely destructive or irreparable injury: to ruin one's health. Wreck implies a violent breaking up or demolition: to wreck oneself with drink; to wreck a building.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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