Definitions for the word, spoil

(n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.

(n.) 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.

(n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.

(n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

(n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.

(n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

(v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.

(v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.

(v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.


34 words found in the Scrabble word, spoil



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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