Decrease and Spoil

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

spoil

Usually plural. ( valuables taken by violence (especially in war))
- usage: "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it.
- usage: "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
- synonyms: spoiling, spoilage
The act of stripping and taking by force.
- synonyms: spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
- usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- synonyms: botch, bodge, 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
Become unfit for consumption or use.
- usage: "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
- synonyms: go bad
Alter from the original.
- synonyms: corrupt
Treat with excessive indulgence.
- usage: "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students"
- synonyms: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge
Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
- usage: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- synonyms: thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
Have a strong desire or urge to do something.
- usage: "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
- synonyms: itch
Destroy and strip of its possession.
- usage: "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
- synonyms: rape, despoil, violate, plunder
Make imperfect.
- usage: "nothing marred her beauty"
- synonyms: mar, impair, deflower, vitiate

(v.i.) To practice plunder or robbery.
(v.t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
(v.t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
(n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
(n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.
(n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
(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.
(n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
(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.i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
(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.) The slough or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary