Spoil

Pronunciation




Etymology
From espoillier:, from  spoliare:, present active infinitive of spolio:.

Verb

 * 1)  To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VII:
 * To do her dye (quoth Vna) were despight, / And shame t'auenge so weake an enimy; / But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.
 * 1) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.vii:
 * Roger, that rich Bishop of Salisbury, [...] spoiled of his goods by King Stephen, [...] through grief ran mad, spoke and did he knew not what.
 * 1)  To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
 * 2)  To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
 * 3)  To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
 * 4)  To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
 * 5)  Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
 * 6)  To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

Synonyms

 * damage, destroy, ruin
 * coddle, indulge, mollycoddle

Translations

 * Dutch: verbrodden, verprutsen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: rongál,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 台無しにする, 悪くなる
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: портить,
 * Sicilian: sbinnari
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: verwennen, bederven (maybe only in Flanders)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: verwöhnen
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 甘やかす
 * Romanian: răsfăţa
 * Russian:, избаловать
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: skämma bort


 * Czech: zkazit se
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian: megsavanyodik, megromlik
 * Italian: andare a male
 * Japanese: 腐る
 * Russian: прокиснуть (of liquid foods), скиснуть (liquids), испортиться (solids)
 * Sicilian: peddiri, passari
 * Spanish:, ,

Noun

 * 1) (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
 * 2)  Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging.  Tailings.

Derived terms

 * spoiler

Translations

 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: saalis, sotasaalis
 * German:
 * Hebrew: שלל
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 略奪品;  利権
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Japanese: 廃棄物


 * : mengotori, menodai

Anagrams

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