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spoil (v.) Old form(s): spoile , spoyl'd
devastate, ravage, impoverish
KL V.iii.276[Lear to all] I am old now / And these same crosses spoil me
TS III.ii.53[Biondello to Tranio as Lucentio, of Petruchio's horse] spoiled with the staggers
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