(v. t.) To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
(v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
(v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
(v. t.) To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
(v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.
(v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
(n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
(n.) Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.
(n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
(n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
(n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.
(n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli said she would not let comments about her appearance by the BBC presenter John Inverdale spoil the greatest day of her life.
(2) In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in the Second world war .
(3) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
(4) We tested 1,145 isolates from fresh and spoiling irradiated (0.0, 0.3, and 0.6 Mrad) yellow perch fillets for proteolytic activity, by the use of both media.
(5) The few who enjoy themselves thoughtlessly, going against the green Glastonbury ethos , spoil it for the many.
(6) Spoiled fish of the families, Scombridae and Scomberesocidae (e.g.
(7) Spoiling periods of ca 1-2 ms with driving currents of ca 0.5-1.0 A are predicted to be adequate for surface-spoiling experiments with rat, e.g., for noninvasive monitoring of liver.
(8) Magnetic resonance arteriograms of healthy volunteers and selected patients were produced with a new spoiled gradient-echo pulse sequence based on time-of-flight phenomena.
(9) In the spoiled samples, the highest total counts were 820 million in buttermilk biscuits.
(10) Hagenbeck’s zoo would be a celebration of the German colonial project and its spoils, from German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia) to German East Africa (present-day Burundi, Rwanda and mainland Tanzania).
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The spoils of war: pro-Russia rebels recover a tank (left) abandoned by retreating Ukrainian troops.
(12) Deliberately spoiled mackerel samples and mackerel samples implicated in outbreaks of scombrotoxicosis were, under medical supervision, tested blind on normal, healthy volunteers of both sexes.
(13) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(14) Magnetic resonance angiography of the pulmonary vasculature was evaluated in 12 subjects using breath-hold gradient echo scans and surface coils at 1.5 T. Flow-compensated GRASS, spoiled GRASS (SPGR), and WARP-SPGR sequences were utilized.
(15) Mawer said some junior members may have been paid a fee, with bigger fish getting a share of the spoils.
(16) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
(17) Economics didn't start out trying to spoil our fun.
(18) Sid Ward, teacher, 38, Kingsbridge, Devon (now living in Herefordshire) ‘Properties are empty, so the community is empty’ Second homes destroy the fabric of the town and spoil the very things that made it attractive to the second home owner in the first place.
(19) But Pence, close observers said, simply advocated such ideas ahead of their time, at a moment when Republican leadership still feared that the “war on women” label would spoil their standing with the public in the 2012 election.
(20) The script was written but Burnley spoiled Cole and Lambert’s happy ending.
Spool
Definition:
(n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
(v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three possible cases for the ejection process friction are considered: friction in the tail-part channel, that of DNA segments with each other in the whole globule volume (it is essential for the collective way of the globule decondensation with simultaneous movement of all the loops--the first type way), the globule friction with internal capsid surface (it is most essential for the decondensation by the way of the globule rotation as a whole "spool"--the second type way).
(2) Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman for the command operating the war against Isis, said that Keating was part of a quick reaction force (QRF) spooled up in support of a US “advise and assist” mission that “just happened to be in that village” meeting with peshmerga leaders at Tel Osqof, less than four km behind the front.
(3) Subsequently, the acceptor region spools up single-stranded polypyrimidines as they are released by progressive denaturation of the donor region; both the spooling and the denaturation result in relaxation of negative supercoils in the rest of the DNA molecule.
(4) The patients were dialysed with a spool dialysator with cuprophan membrane of a surface of 1 m2.
(5) This graft is flexible during insertion but becomes rigid after proper intraaortic placement as the spool is dilated and the ratchest lock into position.
(6) Under Nény’s insistent questioning, the quietly spoken Benhaim repeats that “that version of events is wrong” Eventually, the spooling, repetitive question-and-answer becomes hard to follow.
(7) Spool forward through a most unusual period in BBC history when all three main output divisions – TV, Radio and News – were being run by candidates for Mark Thompson's job; and also a contender was No 2, Caroline Thomson.
(8) Recent events in Shanghai’s stock markets have been all too reminiscent of the tales that have entered American folk memory from the days of the Wall Street crash in 1929: of stock-tipping shoeshine boys, exhausted traders, and ticker-tape machines spooling late into the night.
(9) A device containing a spool of fine line was carried by released mammals so that the line unwound under minimum tension as the animal proceeded and could be followed the day after release.
(10) Tape spools from her ears as sparks fly from her open mouth.
(11) The results of both search routines are spooled and stored in a retrievable file.
(12) After covering the radioactive filter positions with an adhesive plastic foil from both sides, the film spool is directly inserted into a specially constructed gamma-counter.
(13) The third is the globule friction with the capsid inner surface, that is most important when decondensation proceeds via the globule rotation as a whole spool (mechanism 2).
(14) The core may be a protein spool about which the phage DNA is wound.
(15) We now are using this device whenever possible in all substitutions of the aorta, although in approximately 40% of patients, it is necessary to remove one of the spools and suture either the proximal or distal end of the graft owing to the close proximity of the aneurysm to the coronary ostia or the origin of the subclavian artery.
(16) Studies on negatively stained preparations of purified capsids suggest that the toroid consists of DNA arranged as if it were spooled around the cylindrical mass.
(17) From our results we have proposed a double-helix model for the gene 5 protein-DNA complex in which the protein forms a spindle or core around which the DNA is spooled.
(18) When metacarpal epiphyseal cartilage (growth plates) ossifies with age, break joints on the distal end of the metacarpals fuse and the end of the bone then appears as a spool joint rather than as a break joint.
(19) In the streets and lifts of nearby office blocks, everyone seems to be carrying reels of old-fashioned tape recorder spools.
(20) The initial rather trivial complaint spooled into a much more robust discussion in the comments and elsewhere online, about how much Facebook already influences how news is shaped and delivered.