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    [spoil]
    verb
    spoil (verb) · spoils (third person present) · spoilt (past tense) · spoilt (past participle) · spoiled (past tense) · spoiled (past participle) · spoiling (present participle)
    1. diminish or destroy the value or quality of:
      "I wouldn't want to spoil your fun" · "a series of political blunders spoiled their chances of being re-elected"
      • prevent someone from enjoying (an occasion or event):
        "she was afraid of spoiling Christmas for the rest of the family"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        mark (a ballot paper) incorrectly so as to make one's vote invalid, especially as a gesture of protest:
        "the group called on its supporters to spoil their papers"
      • (of food) become unfit for eating:
        "I've got some ham that'll spoil if we don't eat it tonight"
    2. harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent:
      "the last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas"
      • treat with great or excessive kindness, consideration, or generosity:
        "breakfast in bed—you're spoiling me!"
    3. (be spoiling for)
      be extremely or aggressively eager for:
      "Cooper was spoiling for a fight"
    4. archaic
      rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence:
      "the enemy entered into Hereford, spoiled and fired the city, and razed the walls to the ground"
    noun
    spoil (noun) · spoils (plural noun)
    1. (spoils)
      goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place:
      "the looters carried their spoils away"
    2. waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation.
    Origin
    Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): shortening of Old French espoille (noun), espoillier (verb), from Latin spoliare, from spolium ‘plunder, skin stripped from an animal’, or a shortening of despoil.
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    verb
    1. diminish or destroy the value or quality of:
      mar
      damage
      impair
      blemish
      disfigure
      blight
      flaw
      deface
      scar
      injure
      harm
      ruin
      destroy
      wreck
      be a blot on the landscape
      disfeature
      Opposite:
      improve
      enhance
    2. harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent:
      overindulge
      pamper
      indulge
      mollycoddle
      cosset
      coddle
      baby
      spoon-feed
      overparent
      nanny
      nursemaid
      feather-bed
      cocker
      wait on hand and foot
      cater to someone's every whim
      kill with kindness
      dote on
      wrap in cotton wool
      Opposite:
      neglect
      treat harshly
      be strict with
      • be extremely or aggressively eager for:
        after
        set on
        eager for
        itching for
        looking for
        keen to have
        raring for
        bent on
        on the lookout for
        longing for
      • rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence:
        ransack
        plunder
        rob
        raid
        loot
        rifle
        sack
        dispossess
        strip
        deprive
        denude
        devastate
        ravage
        harry
        maraud
        despoil
        reave
        rape
        forage
        steal from
        lay waste
        depredate
        spoliate
      noun
      1. goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place:
        booty
        loot
        plunder
        haul
        pickings
        takings
        benefits
        advantages
        perks
        perquisites
        appanages
        stolen goods
        ill-gotten gains

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      What does spoiled mean?1. to damage or harm severely; ruin: The tear spoiled the delicate fabric. 2. to impair the quality of; affect detrimentally: Bad weather spoiled our vacation. 3. to impair the character of (someone) by excessive indulgence. 4. Archaic. a. to strip of goods or valuables; plunder. b. to take or seize by force.

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      What does it mean if a child is spoiled?If you spoil children, you give them everything they want or ask for. This is considered to have a bad effect on a child's character. Grandparents are often tempted to spoil their grandchildren whenever they come to visit. [VERB noun] A spoilt child is rarely popular with other children. Oh, that child. He's so spoiled.

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      What happens if you spoil something?When you spoil something, you mess it up, like spoiling someone's good mood by bringing up a painful memory. Food can also spoil, or become unsafe for eating, and you can spoil a child by always giving him everything he wants, making him unable to cope when things don't go his way. The word spoil comes from the Old French espoillier, to plunder.

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