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Spoil (disambiguation)

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spoil

¦ verb (past and past participle spoilt (chiefly Brit.) or spoiled)

1. diminish or destroy the value or quality of.

(of food) become unfit for eating.

mark (a ballot paper) incorrectly so as to invalidate one's vote.

2. harm the character of (a child) by being too indulgent.

treat with great or excessive kindness or generosity.

3. (be spoiling for) be extremely or aggressively eager for.

4. archaic rob by force or violence.

¦ noun

1. (spoils) stolen goods.

2. waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation.

Phrases

be spoilt for choice Brit. have so many options that it is difficult to make a choice.

Derivatives

spoilage noun

Origin

ME: shortening of OFr. espoille (n.), espoillier (v.), from L. spoliare, from spolium 'plunder, skin stripped from an animal', or a shortening of despoil.

spoil

(spoils, spoiling, spoiled, spoilt)

Note: American English uses the form 'spoiled' as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either 'spoiled' or 'spoilt'.

1.

If you spoil something, you prevent it from being successful or satisfactory.

It's important not to let mistakes spoil your life...

Peaceful summer evenings can be spoilt by mosquitoes.

VERB: V n, V n

2.

If you spoil children, you give them everything they want or ask for. This is considered to have a bad effect on a child's character.

Grandparents are often tempted to spoil their grandchildren whenever they come to visit.

VERB: V n

• spoilt, spoiled

A spoilt child is rarely popular with other children...

Oh, that child. He's so spoiled.

ADJ

3.

If you spoil yourself or spoil another person, you give yourself or them something nice as a treat or do something special for them.

Spoil yourself with a new perfume this summer...

Perhaps I could employ someone to iron his shirts, but I wanted to spoil him. He was my man.

= pamper

VERB: V pron-refl, V n

4.

If food spoils or if it is spoilt, it is no longer fit to be eaten.

We all know that fats spoil by becoming rancid...

Some organisms are responsible for spoiling food and cause food poisoning...

VERB: V, V n

5.

If someone spoils their vote, they write something illegal on their voting paper, usually as a protest about the election, and their vote is not accepted. (BRIT)

They had broadcast calls for voters to spoil their ballot papers...

= deface

VERB: V n

6.

The spoils of something are things that people get as a result of winning a battle or of doing something successfully.

True to military tradition, the victors are now treating themselves to the spoils of war...

N-PLURAL: usu with supp

7.

If you say that someone is spoilt for choice or spoiled for choice, you mean that they have a great many things of the same type to choose from.

At lunchtime, MPs are spoilt for choice in 26 restaurants and bars.

PHRASE: v-link PHR

spoil

I. v. a.

1.

Plunder, rob, despoil, fleece, strip, ravage, waste.

2.

Injure, harm, disfigure, mar, damage, ruin, destroy.

3.

Steal, take, seize by violence.

4.

Corrupt, vitiate, mar, ruin.

II. v. n.

1.

Steal, pilfer, rob.

2.

Decay, be corrupted.

III. n.

1.

Booty, pillage, plunder, prey.

2.

Prize, booty, gain.

3.

Robbery, waste, pillage, rapine, spoliation.

4.

Slough, cast skin, tegument.

5.

Corruption, ruin, destruction.

Spoil

·noun Corruption; cause of corruption.

II. Spoil ·vi To practice plunder or robbery.

III. Spoil ·noun That which is gained by strength or effort.

IV. Spoil ·noun The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.

V. Spoil ·noun The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

VI. Spoil ·vt To seize by violence;; to take by force; to Plunder.

VII. Spoil ·noun That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

VIII. Spoil ·vi To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to Decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.

IX. Spoil ·vt To cause to decay and perish; to Corrput; to Vitiate; to Mar.

X. Spoil ·vt To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to Ruin; to Destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.

XI. Spoil ·noun Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage;

- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.

XII. Spoil ·vt To Plunder; to strip by violence; to Pillage; to Rob;

- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

spoil

v. (d; intr.; usu. in a progressive form) to spoil for ('to seek') (to be spoiling for a fight)

Spoil (archaeology)

SOIL FROM AN EXCAVATION

In archaeology, spoil is the term used for the soil, dirt and rubble that results from an excavation, and discarded off site on spoil heaps. These heaps are commonly accessed by barrow runs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoil_(archaeology)

Overburden

EARTH AND ROCK COVERING A MINERAL DEPOSIT

Interburden

In mining, overburden (also called waste or spoil) is the material that lies above an area that lends itself to economical exploitation, such as the rock, soil, and ecosystem that lies above a coal seam or ore body. Overburden is distinct from tailings, the material that remains after economically valuable components have been extracted from the generally finely milled ore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overburden

overburden

EARTH AND ROCK COVERING A MINERAL DEPOSIT

Interburden

¦ verb burden excessively.

¦ noun

1. rock or soil overlying a mineral deposit, archaeological site, etc.

2. an excessive burden.

Derivatives

overburdensome adjective

Overburden

EARTH AND ROCK COVERING A MINERAL DEPOSIT

Interburden

·noun The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.

II. Overburden ·vt To load with too great weight or too much care, ·etc.

Spoil tip

PILE BUILT OF ACCUMULATED SPOIL

Spoil heap; Boney piles; Bing (mining); Slag heap; Spoil bank; Gob pile; Tip (mining); Pit heap; Waste tip; Spoil tips; Waste heap

A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated spoil – waste material removed during mining. These waste materials are typically composed of shale, as well as smaller quantities of carboniferous sandstone and other residues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoil_tip

Википедия

Spoil

Spoil or spoils:

Plunder taken from an enemy or victim
Material (such as rock, earth or other overburden) removed during:
- excavation
- mining
- dredging
An Australian rules football tactic, see One percenter (Australian rules football)#Spoil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoil