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(n)
A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
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The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
(by extension) (law) (uncountable) The intentional destruction of, or tampering with, a document so as to impair its evidentiary value.
(v)
(transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
(transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
(transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
(transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
(adj)
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
The process of spoiling.
(of foods and commodities) To spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.
(transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
(idiomatic, colloquial) To mess up; to confuse; to put into a state of disorder.
(transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
(informal, transitive, intransitive) To ruin unintentionally.
(intransitive, slang, idiomatic) To make a mistake, to go wrong.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
(transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
(informal, transitive) To ruin, mess up.
(transitive) To deal with a situation incorrectly or ineffectively; to make a mistake in handling a situation.
(transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
(transitive) To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.
(informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.
A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(transitive, slang) To ruin or botch.
(transitive) To botch or bungle.
(transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
(transitive) To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle.
(transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.
(transitive) To treat like a pet; to overly indulge.
(transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
(transitive) To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.
(transitive) To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
(intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
A mattress stuffed with feathers.
(vulgar slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
A wobbling motion.
(colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.
(transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
(transitive) To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
(US, slang, transitive) To confuse or fluster.
A spoiling or ruining; destruction.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
(transitive) To lower the rank or status of.
(ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
(transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
(transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
(transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.
A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.
(transitive) To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
(transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
(informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
(transitive) To cause to come off the tracks.
(slang) Synonym of money.
(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
(ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
(military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
(ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
Tasting of acidity.
(transitive) To separate or break down (something) into its components.
(transitive) To compromise, damage, soil, or sully.
A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
(ambitransitive) To indulge to excess.
(transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
Obsolete form of spoil. [(transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour.]
(transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
(transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.
(transitive) To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from.
(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
(countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
(transitive, archaic) To strip away, remove; strip, undress; deprive.
A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
(transitive) To strip of furniture.