spoil

verb · nounA2

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verb
V_es/s
spoils
V_ing/Gerund
spoiling
V_ed/pp
spoiledspoilt
  1. 1.

    (archaic, transitive)To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour.

  2. 2.

    (archaic, transitive)To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil.

  3. 3.

    (ambitransitive, archaic)To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).

  4. 4.

    (obsolete, transitive)To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.

  5. 5.

    (transitive)To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.

    All this sun spoils me for vacations in the far North.

  6. 6.

    (transitive)To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.

  7. 7.

    (intransitive)(intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.

    Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge; otherwise it will spoil.

  8. 8.

    (transitive)To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.

  9. 9.

    (transitive)To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.

  10. 10.

    (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.

  11. 11.

    (intransitive)To be very eager (for something).

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
spoils
  1. 1.

    (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.

  2. 2.

    (archaic)The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.

  3. 3.

    (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.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoliō, spoliāre (pillage, ruin, spoil).

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, wiktionary · cập nhật 16/8/2026

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