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Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat musty. Shak.

To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil. [Obs.]

To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.

m another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak.

To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder. And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest. Num. xxxi. 12.

To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser.

To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. Already Cæsar Has ravaged more than half the globe. Addison. His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. Macaulay.

One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.

Array; order; arrangement; dress. [Obs.] And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray. Spenser.

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. "To reave his life." Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. Chapman. To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak. The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.…

Robbery; spoil. [Obs.]

The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.] After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. Foxe.

To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

rilege to dig. Spenser. Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the spoils of sacrilege. South.

To injure, mar, spoil, or harm. [Obs.] "Loss of time shendeth us." Chaucer. I fear my body will be shent. Dryden.

To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of. Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears. Dryden.

To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

One who spoliates; a spoiler.

Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.