- SPOIL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
spoil, plunder, booty, prize, loot mean something taken from another by force or craft spoil, more commonly spoils, applies to what belongs by right or custom to the victor in war or political contest
- SPOIL Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
SPOIL definition: to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc : Drought spoiled the corn crop See examples of spoil used in a sentence
- SPOIL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SPOIL definition: 1 to destroy or reduce the pleasure, interest, or beauty of something: 2 When food spoils or is… Learn more
- Spoil - definition of spoil by The Free Dictionary
corrupt - Comes from Latin corrumpere, "destroy completely," and first meant "to destroy or spoil the flesh, fruit, or organic matter by dissolution or decomposition "
- spoil - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
spoil (plural spoils) (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim quotations
- spoil - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
to (cause to) become bad or unfit for use, such as food that does not last long unless treated with cold: [no object] Too much moisture and heat will cause the food to spoil [~ + object] to spoil the food
- Spoils system - Wikipedia
In memoriam--our civil service as it was, an 1877 political cartoon by Thomas Nast showing a statue of Andrew Jackson on a pig standing over "fraud", "bribery", and "spoils" and eating "plunder" In politics and government, a spoils system (also known as a patronage system) is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends
- SPOIL definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you spoil something, you prevent it from being successful or satisfactory It's important not to let mistakes spoil your life [VERB noun]
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