Meaning

6 senses
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

    someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence

  2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.

  3. A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc.

    Good netiquette dictates that one warn of spoilers before discussing them, so that readers who wish to do so may experience the surprises for themselves.

    Spoiler

    спо́йлерspójler

    спо́йлерspójler

  4. A device to reduce lift and increase drag.

    Störklappe

    спо́йлерspójler

    a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag

  5. A device to reduce lift and increase downforce.

    Spoiler

    спо́йлерspójler, антикрыло́antikryló

    an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds

  6. (US)A competitor, unable to win themselves, who spoils the chances of another’s victory.

    someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

Examples

16 sentences
  1. No spoilers, please!

    Без спойлерів, будь ласка! — deniko

  2. That guy is a party spoiler.

  3. There's a chance that it contains spoilers.

  4. I don't want to give you any spoilers.

  5. The ultimate life spoiler: in the end you'll die!

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
document, review or comment that discloses:
Русский
By meaning 2
document, review or comment that discloses:
automobiles: device to reduce lift and increase downforce:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
document, review or comment that discloses:
aeronautics: device to reduce lift:

Forms

plural: spoilers
Singularspoiler
Pluralspoilers

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words

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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