spoil

IPA: spˈɔɪɫ

noun

  • (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
  • (archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
  • (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.

verb

  • (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
  • (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
  • (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
  • (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
  • (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
  • (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
  • (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
  • (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
  • (transitive) To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
  • (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
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Examples of "spoil" in Sentences

  • The background spoils the image.
  • The fruit was spoiled and fetid.
  • The hot weather spoiled the meat.
  • Red links spoil the look of the page.
  • Examples just spoil the flow of the sentence.
  • But the oversized tags spoil the illustration.
  • I don't want to spoil the the anonymity of it.
  • She is the cutest but probably the most spoiled.
  • It has the egotism and petulance of a spoiled child.
  • It spoils the overview and neutrality of the article.

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