spoil

Definitions

• (transitive) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• (transitive) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• (ambitransitive) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• (transitive) 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 or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.