spoil

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoliō, spoliāre (“pillage, ruin, spoil”). === Pronunciation === enPR: spoil, IPA(key): /spɔɪl/ Rhymes: -ɔɪl === Verb === spoil (third-person singular simple present spoils, present participle spoiling, simple past and past participle spoiled or spoilt) (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour. [from 14th c.] (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil. [from 14th c.] (ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). [from 14th c.] (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. [14th–19th c.] (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable. [from 16th c.] (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.] (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay. [from 17th c.] (transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing. [from 19th c.] (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. (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler. (intransitive) To be very eager (for something). [from 19th c.] ==== Synonyms ==== (ruin): damage, destroy, sully (especially somebody's reputation), ruin (coddle): coddle, pamper, indulge, mollycoddle ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== despoil ==== Descendants ==== Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: pwail Cameroon Pidgin: spɔ́jl, sipɔ́jl Jamaican Creole: pwail Krio: pwɛl, pwɔjl Sranan Tongo: pori, poli (obsolete)Aukan: póliSaramaccan: pói → Welsh: sbwylio ==== Translations ==== === Noun === spoil (plural spoils) (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. (archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine. (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. ==== Synonyms ==== (plunder taken from an enemy or victim): See Thesaurus:booty (material moved): gangue, slag, tailings ==== Derived terms ==== spoiler spoil heap spoilless ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== spoilage spoils of war spoilsport spoilt too many cooks spoil the broth === References === “spoil”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === -polis, Polis, polis