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| 1. v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. |  |
| 2. v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil. | |
| 3. v. (ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). | |
| 4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. | |
| 5. v. To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. | |
| 6. v. To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. | |
| Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil. | |
| 8. v. To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it. | |
| 9. v. To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time. | |
| 10. n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. | |
| 11. n. Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. | |
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