Meaning

11 senses
  1. (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.

    ruinieren, verderben, kaputtmachen

    по́ртитьpórtitʹ, испо́ртитьispórtitʹ, поврежда́тьpovreždátʹ

    псува́тиpsuváty

    make a mess of, destroy or ruin

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

    verwöhnen, verziehen

    балова́тьbalovátʹ, ба́ловатьbálovatʹ, избалова́тьizbalovátʹ

  3. (intransitive)To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.

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

    verderben, schlecht werden

    проки́снутьprokísnutʹ, ски́снутьskísnutʹ, испо́ртитьсяispórtitʹsja

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

  5. (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.

    den Spaß verderben, spoilern

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

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

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

    plündern

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

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

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

Examples

348 sentences
  1. You're behaving like a spoiled brat.

    Ти поводишся, як зіпсований шибеник.

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  2. I don't want to spoil the surprise.

    Я не хочу зіпсувати сюрприз.

    ruЯ не хочу портить сюрприз.

    deIch will die Überraschung nicht verderben.

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  3. When I opened the refrigerator, I noticed the meat had spoiled.

    Коли я відчинив холодильник, я звернув увагу на те, що м'ясо зіпсувалося.

    ruОткрыв холодильник, я обнаружил, что мясо испортилось.

    deAls ich den Kühlschrank öffnete, bemerkte ich, dass das Fleisch verdorben war.

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  4. You're behaving like a spoilt brat.

    Ти поводишся, як зіпсований шибеник.

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  5. Don't spoil your child.

    Не балуй свою дитину.

    ruНе порть своего ребёнка.

    deVerhätschel dein Kind nicht.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to ruin:
Русский
By meaning 3
to ruin:
to coddle or pamper:
to become sour or rancid, to decay:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
to strip:
to ruin:
to coddle or pamper:
to become sour or rancid, to decay:
to reveal the ending of:

Origin

From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espu

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

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Forms

spoils, spoiling, spoiled, spoiled
Base formspoil · to spoil
3rd person singularspoils
Present participlespoiling
Past simplespoiled / spoilt
Past participlespoiled / spoilt

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyspoil
he, she, itspoils

Past simpleLesson

all personsspoiled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave spoiled
he, she, ithas spoiled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill spoil

Synonyms

73 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

10 antonyms

Word family

15 related words

Collocations

6 patterns
  • a spoiled brat
  • spoiled brat
  • a spoiled child
  • like a spoiled
  • spoiled child
  • is a spoiled

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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