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▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time as a spoiler.
▸ verb:  (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be very eager for something.
▸ noun:  (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
▸ noun:  (archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.

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