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 Definitions of Spoil  [ɔɪl]  

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Definition of 'Spoil' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) spoil
to damage or harm severely; ruin:
The tear spoiled the delicate fabric.

2.  spoil
to impair the quality of; affect detrimentally:
Bad weather spoiled our vacation.

3.  spoil
to impair the character of (someone) by excessive indulgence.

4.  spoil
Archaic.

5.  spoil
to strip of goods or valuables; plunder.

6.  spoil
to take or seize by force.

7. (v.i.) spoil
to become bad or unfit for use, as food or other perishable substances.

8.  spoil
to plunder, pillage, or rob.

9. (n.) spoil
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.

10.  spoil
spoils, the emoluments and advantages of public office viewed as won by a victorious political party.

11.  spoil
waste material, as that which is cast up in excavating.


Definition of 'Spoil' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) spoil
(usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
"to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"

2. (noun) spoil, spoiling, spoilage
the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
"her spoiling my dress was deliberate"

3. (verb) spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
the act of stripping and taking by force

4. (verb) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
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"

5. (verb) spoil, go bad
become unfit for consumption or use
"the meat must be eaten before it spoils"

6. (verb) corrupt, spoil
alter from the original

7. (verb) pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
treat with excessive indulgence
"grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

8. (verb) thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

9. (verb) itch, spoil
have a strong desire or urge to do something
"She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"

10. (verb) rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder
destroy and strip of its possession
"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

11. (verb) mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate
make imperfect
"nothing marred her beauty"


Definition of 'Spoil' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) spoil
to cause sth good to become bad or unpleasant
His comment spoiled the whole evening.; Police spoiled the thieves' plans.

2.  spoil
to treat sb too well so they complain if they do not receive good treatment all the time
We have been spoiled by low gas prices in the past.

3.  spoil
(of food) to become moldy or rotten
The cheese spoiled in the heat.


Definition of 'Spoil' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Spoil
that which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty

2. (noun) Spoil
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

3. (noun) Spoil
that which is gained by strength or effort

4. (noun) Spoil
the act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste

5. (noun) Spoil
corruption; cause of corruption

6. (noun) Spoil
the slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal

7. (verb) Spoil
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

8. (verb) Spoil
to seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder

9. (verb) Spoil
to cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar

10. (verb) Spoil
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

11. (verb) Spoil
to practice plunder or robbery

12. (verb) Spoil
to lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather


Translation of 'Spoil' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to damage or ruin; to make bad or useless
If you touch that drawing you'll spoil it.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: ruïneer Arabic flag Arabic: يُتْلِف Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: повреждам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: estragar Czech flag Czech: zkazit German flag German: verderben
Danish flag Danish: ødelægge Greek flag Greek: καταστρέφω, χαλώ, φθείρω Spanish flag Spanish: estropear
Estonian flag Estonian: (ära) rikkuma Farsi flag Farsi: خراب كردن؛ فاسد كردن Finnish flag Finnish: pilata
French flag French: gâcher Hebrew flag Hebrew: לְקַלקֵל Hindi flag Hindi: बिगाड़ना, खराब कर देना, न
Croatian flag Croatian: pokvariti Hungarian flag Hungarian: elront Indonesian flag Indonesian: merusak
Icelandic flag Icelandic: eyðileggja(st) Italian flag Italian: rovinare, sciupare Japanese flag Japanese: だめにする
Korean flag Korean: 망치다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: (su)gadinti Latvian flag Latvian: []bojāt
Malay flag Malay: rosak Dutch flag Dutch: bederven Norwegian flag Norwegian: ødelegge, spolere
Polish flag Polish: psuć Portuguese flag Portuguese: estragar Romanian flag Romanian: a strica
Russian flag Russian: (ис)портить Slovak flag Slovak: pokaziť Slovenian flag Slovenian: uničiti
Serbian flag Serbian: pokvariti Swedish flag Swedish: förstöra Thai flag Thai: ทำให้เสียหาย
Turkish flag Turkish: bozmak Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 損壞 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: (зі)псувати
Urdu flag Urdu: بگاڑنا، خراب کرنا Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: làm hỏngt Chinese flag Chinese: 损坏

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