spoil
US: /ˈspɔɪɫ/
UK: /spˈɔɪl/
UK: /spˈɔɪl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
spoil /spɔil/
- danh từ
- (số nhiều) chiến lợi phẩm
- lợi lộc, quyền lợi (sau khi chiến thắng)
- (đùa cợt) bổng lộc, lương lậu
- (đánh bài) sự hoà
- đất đá đào lên, đất bùn nạo vét lên
- ngoại động từ spoiled, spoilt
- cướp phá, tước đoạt, cướp đoạt
- làm hư, làm hỏng, làm hại
- the performance was spoilt by the rain: mưa làm hỏng cả cuộc biểu diễn
- the news spoilt his dinner: tin đó làm cho anh ta ăn cơm mất ngon
- làm hư (một đứa trẻ)
- a spoilt child: một đứa trẻ hư (vì nuông chiều)
- (từ lóng) chặt chân tay (ai); giết, khử
- nội động từ
- thối, ươn (quả, cá...)
- these fruit will not spoil with keeping: những quả này để lâu không thối
- mất hay, mất thú (câu chuyện đùa)
- (chỉ động tính từ hiện tại) hăm hở, hậm hực muốn
- to be spoiling for a fight: hậm hực muốn đánh nhau
- spare the rod and spoil the child
- (xem) rod
- thối, ươn (quả, cá...)
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb (spoiled, spoiled )
1 [VN] to change sth good into sth bad, unpleasant, useless, etc.
Synonym: RUIN
Our camping trip was spoilt by bad weather. + Don't let him spoil your evening. + The tall buildings have spoiled the view. + Don't eat too many nuts-you'll spoil your appetite (= will no longer be hungry at mealtime). + (BrE) spoiled ballot papers (= not valid because not correctly marked) + I won't tell you what happens in the last chapter-I don't want to spoil it for you.
2 [VN] to give a child everything that they ask for and not enough discipline in a way that has a bad effect on their character and behaviour: She spoils those kids of hers.
3 [VN] ~ sb / yourself to make sb/yourself happy by doing sth special: Why not spoil yourself with a weekend in a top hotel? + He really spoiled me on my birthday.
4 [V] (of food) to become bad so that it can no longer be eaten
Idioms: be spoiling for a fight to want to fight with sb very much
more at COOK n.
+ noun
1 (the spoils) [pl.] (formal or literary) goods stolen from a place by thieves or by an army that has won a battle or war: the spoils of war / conquest + The robbers divided up the spoils.
2 (spoils) [pl.] the profits or advantages that sb gets from being successful: the spoils of high office + The two teams shared the spoils with a 11 result.
3 [U] (technical) waste material that is brought up when a hole is dug, etc.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 ruin, destroy, wreck, queer, mess up, upset, demolish, harm, damage, Colloq kill:
You really spoiled everything by telling Mum about my pet frog. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
2 damage, mar, injure, harm, deface, disfigure, scar, blemish:
The painting was spoiled by some fanatic who slashed it.
3 baby, mollycoddle, coddle, indulge, pamper, dote on, spoonfeed, Rare cocker:
Barbara really spoils her family terribly by indulging their every whim.
4 turn, go off or bad, curdle, moulder, decay, decompose, become addle(d), rot, putrefy, mildew:
The milk will spoil if not refrigerated.
5 be spoiling for. itch (for or after), yearn (for), be eager (for), be keen (for), look for, be bent on, be desirous of, crave, be after:
If you give Tom a drink he'll be spoiling for a fight. Oh, I thought he was always spoiling for a fight.
n.
6 spoils. loot, booty, plunder, pillage, prizes, pickings, Slang swag, take, goods, boodle:
The Nazis took the paintings as spoils of war.
Collocation dictionary
1 make sth useless/unsuccessful/not very good
ADV.
completely, quite
Her selfish behaviour completely spoiled the evening.
| rather, slightly, somewhat
VERB + SPOIL
mustn't, not be going to, not want to
I don't want to spoil things for everyone else.
| be a pity to
It would be a pity to spoil the surprise.
| try to | not let sth
Don't let the bad weather spoil your holiday.
2 a child
PREP.
with
spoiling the children with expensive toys
PHRASES
be completely/thoroughly/utterly spoilt
Those children are thoroughly spoilt!
| spoil sb rotten
My grandparents used to spoil me rotten.
| a spoilt brat/child
Concise English dictionary
spoilt|spoils|spoiled|spoilingspɔɪl
noun
+(usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
+the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
+the act of stripping and taking by force
verb
+make a mess of, destroy or ruin
+become unfit for consumption or use
+alter from the original
+treat with excessive indulgence
+hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
+have a strong desire or urge to do something
+destroy and strip of its possession
+make imperfect
