- 4. Ache, throb.
Split, n.
- 1. Crack, fissure, rent.
- 2. Division, separation, breach.
Split hairs. Refine, be over-nice, affect nicety, make useless distinctions.
Splotch, n. Spot, stain, smear, daub, blot.
Splutter, n. (Colloq.) Bustle, stir.
Splutter, v. n. (Colloq.) Stammer (through haste), sputter, stutter.
Splutterer, n. (Colloq.) Stammerer, sputterer.
Spoil, v. a.
- 1. Plunder, rob, despoil, fleece, strip, ravage, waste.
- 2. Injure, harm, disfigure, mar, damage, ruin, destroy.
- 3. Steal, take, seize by violence.
- 4. Corrupt, vitiate, mar, ruin.
Spoil, v. n.
- 1. Steal, pilfer, rob.
- 2. Decay, be corrupted.
Spoil, n.
- 1. Booty, pillage, plunder, prey.
- 2. Prize, booty, gain.
- 3. Robbery, waste, pillage, rapine, spoliation.
- 4. Slough, cast skin, tegument.