A Quick and Simple Dictionary

spoil

1. Verb.  (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
2. Verb.  (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
3. Verb.  (transitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). (defdate, from 14th c.) .
4. Verb.  (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. (defdate, 14th-19th c.) .
5. Verb.  (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
6. Verb.  (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. (defdate, from 17th c.) .
7. Verb.  (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. (defdate, from 17th c.) .
8. Verb.  (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it. (defdate, from 19th c.) .
9. Verb.  (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
10. Noun.  (Also in plural: '''spoils''') Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
11. Noun.  (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.