Meaning

3 senses
  1. Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.

    Beute

    трофе́йtroféj

  2. (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.

    Abraum, Schotter, Aushub

  3. (archaic)The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.

    the act of stripping and taking by force

Examples

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

    Ти поводишся, як зіпсований шибеник. — deniko

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

    Я не хочу зіпсувати сюрприз. — deniko

    ruЯ не хочу портить сюрприз. — Balamax

    deIch will die Überraschung nicht verderben. — Waldelfe

  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. — deniko

    ruОткрыв холодильник, я обнаружил, что мясо испортилось. — marafon

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

  4. You're behaving like a spoilt brat.

    Ти поводишся, як зіпсований шибеник. — deniko

  5. Don't spoil your child.

    Не балуй свою дитину. — deniko

    ruНе порть своего ребёнка. — odexed

    deVerhätschel dein Kind nicht. — xtofu80

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
plunder taken from an enemy or victim:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
plunder taken from an enemy or victim:
material moved:

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

plural: spoils
Singularspoil

uncountable

Synonyms

11 synonyms
plunder taken from an enemy or victim:booty
material moved:gangueslagtailings
Close in meaning

Word family

6 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

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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