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General dictionaries General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. spoil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. spoil: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. spoil: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. spoil: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  5. spoil: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Spoil, spoil: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. spoil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Spoil: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. spoil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. spoil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. spoil: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. spoil: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. spoil: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  14. spoil: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. spoil: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  16. spoil: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  17. Spoil (archaeology), Spoil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  18. Spoil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. spoil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. spoil: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. spoil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. spoil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. spoil: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. spoil: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. spoil: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. spoil: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. spoil: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  28. Spoil: World Wide Words [home, info]
  29. spoil: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spoil: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  2. spoil: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spoil: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spoil: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. spoil: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPOIL: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  2. spoil: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slang (1 matching dictionary)
    1. Spoil: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

    Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
    1. SPOIL: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (spoil)

noun:  the act of stripping and taking by force
noun:  the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it ("Her spoiling my dress was deliberate")
noun:  (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war) ("To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy")
verb:  become unfit for consumption or use ("The meat must be eaten before it spoils")
verb:  make a mess of, destroy or ruin
verb:  destroy and strip of its possession
verb:  have a strong desire or urge to do something ("He is spoiling for a fight")
verb:  alter from the original
verb:  hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
verb:  make imperfect
verb:  treat with excessive indulgence

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Phrases that include spoil:   spoil someone rotten, spoil banks, spoil the look of, spoil the party for sb

Words similar to spoil:   baby, mar, baffle, bilk, blow, blunder, bobble, bollix, bollocks, botch, bungle, cocker, coddle, corrupt, cosset, cross, deflower, despoilment, despoliation, featherbed, more...


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