[
US
/ˈspɔɪɫ/
]
[ UK /spˈɔɪl/ ]
[ UK /spˈɔɪl/ ]
VERB
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hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
foil your opponent
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge -
have a strong desire or urge to do something
She is itching to start the project
He is spoiling for a fight -
make imperfect
nothing marred her beauty -
destroy and strip of its possession
The soldiers raped the beautiful country - alter from the original
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treat with excessive indulgence
grandparents often pamper the children
Let's not mollycoddle our students! -
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out -
become unfit for consumption or use
the meat must be eaten before it spoils
NOUN
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the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
her spoiling my dress was deliberate - the act of stripping and taking by force
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(usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
How To Use spoil In A Sentence
- The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
- Elizabeth had doted on her, spoiled her, given her everything a little girl can want.
- So far, so good, so much more credible—and spoiled only slightly by the blandishment that those that fail should present plans for recapitalization "as swiftly as possible. Is This the End of the Beginning for the Euro Crisis?
- Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
- However, there is a potential for increased tourism because of the natural beauty and varied topography and because the country is unspoiled and inexpensive.
- I was accused of being stiff, spoiled, pompous, upper crusted, bitter, angry, negative, imbecilic, and even crazy.
- Its turrets and towers, its windows and its walls, its capacious kitchens, and its fine halls and banqueting rooms -- unspoiled by the hands of the "restorer" -- have gained for it the almost unchallenged position of being the finest baronial residence which still exists. Heiress of Haddon
- Aren't you a spoiled child, without the childness and the spoiling, to go and write in that plaintive, solemn way about 'help of some connexions of Jane's in Glasgow,' as if you were a desolate orphan Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- Thousands of miles of unspoilt coastline, isolated and untouched lakes and pristine mountain ranges are there for the discovering.
- His actions have spoiled the accommodationist agenda, and marred the image of the revolution.
