spoil

n. plunder, loot, goods taken from an enemy in a war or in a robbery; waste material (i.e. earth dug up while mining or excavating)

v. damage; impair, detract from; ruin by excessive indulgence, pamper too much; go bad, decay (of food); plunder, pillage, rob

Decomposition (or spoilage) refers to the reduction of the body of a formerly living organism into simpler forms of matter.
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Noun
1. (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war); "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
(hypernym) stolen property
(derivation) rape, despoil, violate, plunder
(classification) plural, plural form
2. the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
(synonym) spoiling, spoilage
(hypernym) injury
(derivation) mar, impair, deflower, vitiate
3. the act of stripping and taking by force
(synonym) spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
(hypernym) plundering, pillage, pillaging
(derivation) rape, despoil, violate, plunder
Verb
1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
(synonym) botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
(hypernym) fail, go wrong, miscarry
(derivation) spoiling, spoilage
2. become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
(synonym) go bad
(hypernym) decay
(hyponym) addle
(derivation) spoilage, spoiling
3. alter from the original
(synonym) corrupt
(hypernym) modify
(hyponym) adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
(derivation) spoliation
4. treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
(synonym) pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge
(hypernym) treat, handle, do by
(derivation) pamperer, spoiler, coddler, mollycoddler
5. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
(synonym) thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
(hypernym) prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
(hyponym) disappoint, let down
6. have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
(synonym) itch
(hypernym) desire, want
7. destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
(synonym) rape, despoil, violate, plunder
(hypernym) destroy, ruin
8. make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
(synonym) mar, impair, deflower, vitiate
(hypernym) damage
(hyponym) defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud
(derivation) spoiling, spoilage

(v. t.)
To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
  

(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. 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 cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
  

(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.)
The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
  

(n.)
The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
  

(n.)
That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
  

(n.)
That which is gained by strength or effort.
  

(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.)
Corruption; cause of corruption.
  

Dirt or rock removed from its original location--destroying the composition of the soil in the process--as in strip-mining, dredging, or construction.