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spoil English

Meaning spoil meaning

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Definitions in simple English

spoil

If something spoils it becomes no good. This is often due to rotting. If found my lunch was spoiled. If you spoil something, you ruin it, you make it no good. I think I spoiled my presentation by forgetting my data.

spoil

(= botch, screw 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 become unfit for consumption or use the meat must be eaten before it spoils (= corrupt) alter from the original (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war) to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy the act of stripping and taking by force (= spoiling) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it her spoiling my dress was deliberate (= rape) destroy and strip of its possession The soldiers raped the beautiful country (= itch) have a strong desire or urge to do something She is itching to start the project He is spoiling for a fight (= foil, frustrate) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge foil your opponent (= mar) make imperfect nothing marred her beauty (= pamper, mollycoddle) treat with excessive indulgence grandparents often pamper the children Let's not mollycoddle our students!

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spoil · verb

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Simple sentences

Too many cooks spoil the broth.
That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.
Don't spoil your child.
I don't want to spoil the ending for you.
We spoil our youngest daughter.
Put the meat in the refrigerator or it will spoil.
Honey doesn't spoil.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Don't spoil the children.
Does milk spoil quickly?
Make a spoon or spoil a horn.
Don't spoil your appetite.
I don't want to spoil everything.
These apples are beginning to spoil.
The meat will spoil quickly in such hot weather.
Nothing can spoil the fun.

Movie subtitles

Why would we want to do anything to spoil that?
You looked so nice in it, it'd have been a shame to spoil it.
Always work. They simply spoil the place.
It isn't as if i want to spoil your home.
You're a rotter if you can spoil anyone's life who never did you an ounce of harm.
I shouldn't spoil it by trying to sing.
You sure spoil me, ma'am.
You'll spoil everything if he hears you.
Tea would spoil my dinner.
I only have one meal a day, and I'd rather hate to spoil it.
That would spoil everything.
I planned to get his confidence and. and you come along, and you spoil it all.
You can do it much better than I can. and remember, we must not spoil Millicent's dinner.
You know, a third party might spoil this.
If he came to the festivities, as you demand, he would spoil them. and instead of lust horror would pave its way.
If you should go away, you'll spoil this party I am throwing.
You look so nice in it, it'd be a shame to spoil it.
To spoil a man's supper, then come back and spoil his breakfast.
Here I was for the first time in my Iife, having a nice, peaceful time, and you had to come and spoil it.
No. That would spoil everything.
They'd spoil you.
Quiet, you fools. Do you want to spoil everything?
Are you going to let him spoil your life?
Don't cause any trouble. - and spoil people's entertainment.
I only wanted to help you. I thought it would spoil our friendship.
When they are back, they spoil the spirit out here.
You're going to spoil him, you two.
Don't spoil everything now.
But that's not going to spoil my fun.
Now listen, Phil, don't spoil my makeup.
I don't like to spoil your fun.
Sure, and have you spoil all my good work. as you did tonight, barging in. just as I'd about convinced her to drop the case.
Maybe I meant it would eventually spoil you for yourself.
Don't spoil it.

News and current affairs

Through the use of propane, we can ensure that the vaccines do not spoil during the journey from manufacturer to mother and child.
Nobody, it seemed, wanted to spoil the party by pointing that the event was immensely futile, that it highlighted a horrible metaphor, or that it caused much higher overall pollution.
But this does not spoil their remarkable bilateral relations; on the contrary, it improves them.
And yet risks to financial and fiscal stability could arise if higher inflation and currency depreciation were to spoil investors' appetite for Japanese government bonds, thereby pushing up nominal interest rates.
More than three-quarters of the waste occurs well before the kitchen, in inefficient agriculture, because birds and rats eat crops during harvest, for example, or pests spoil grain stores.
If there are no proper roads linking fields to markets, farmers cannot easily sell their surplus produce, which may then spoil before it can be eaten.
But, even when the parliament does make an effort to connect with voters, the ponderous bureaucratic culture of its permanent officials tends to spoil things.
Let's hope that we can keep it in motion, and that we don't spoil it by losing sight of what was really important in bringing it about.
Will Success Spoil Brazil?
Hlavsa and his long-haired fans, celebrated in Tom Stoppard's brilliant play, Rock n'Roll, didn't want the state to spoil their party.
The new administration's stance will thus be critical: Turkey has much to gain by supporting a solution in Cyprus; but it could also revert to old habits and spoil today's unique opportunity.

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