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Definition of spoil in English: spoilverbspoilt, spoiled spɔɪlspɔɪl [with object]1Diminish or destroy the value or quality of. 损害；破坏；毁坏；糟蹋 I wouldn't want to spoil your fun 我不想扫你的兴。 a series of political blunders spoilt their chances of being re-elected 一系列重大政治失误毁掉了他们重新当选的机会。 Example sentencesExamples - I can't really talk about it without spoiling it, but the Big Suprise Twist Ending is idiotic and cliched and I'm almost tempted to spoil it just on principle.
- I'm dying to tell you exactly how he did it, but I don't want to spoil any surprises.
- These two things have rather spoilt the film for me, and if anyone else has seen it, I'd be interested in their thoughts.
- I don't want to spoil the fun, but trust me, you should get a laugh out of this film.
- Am I spoiling things by saying you're in for a lot more disappointment before the series is over?
- However, even this isn't enough to spoil the film.
- To say much more would spoil the fun - and great fun it is.
- Part of the enjoyment in watching this movie is that the viewer doesn't know where the story is going, so I won't spoil the fun by giving away plot points.
- To describe any further than this is to spoil the fun.
- When I saw it first at Venice last year, where it was a deserved prizewinner, the effect was spoiled by - of all things - the showing of the reels in the wrong order.
- I don't know, but it's certainly odd - not that it spoils the fun in any way.
- I'd tell you the lines, but then it would just end up spoiling the fun for you.
- And then I went and spoiled it all by buying this trade paperback.
- Without spoiling too many details about the plot, his detailed planning suggests a level of thought and commitment that few people could match.
- Just give the disappointing sequel a miss for fears of spoiling the excellence that lies within this self-contained laid-back comedic charmer.
- The audience are audible throughout but not in such a way as to spoil the audio quality.
- It's hardly a story you can spoil, I don't think, anyway.
- Unfortunately to tell more would be to give things away I do not wish to spoil for you.
- It would spoil the mood you've created with the show.
- To actually meet him would probably have spoiled it though.
Synonyms mar, damage, impair, blemish, disfigure, blight, flaw, deface, scar, injure, harm ruin, destroy, wreck be a blot on the landscape rare disfeature - 1.1 Prevent someone from enjoying (an occasion or event)
破坏…的兴致 she was afraid of spoiling Christmas for the rest of the family 她担心破坏家里人过圣诞节的兴致。 Example sentencesExamples - Finally, at half past seven the guests agreed it was a pity to spoil a good dinner and seated themselves to a delicious meal.
- I don't want to get into too many details here, lest I spoil the experience for you.
- Theater owners like to throw up their hands and blame the shortcomings of the patrons and films, but they're not acknowledging their role in spoiling a once-magical experience.
- I have been at enough shows spoiled by drunken fools trying to steal the spotlight for 5 minutes of fame, but the volunteers were well-behaved, funny, and added to the momentum of the show.
- It's time for the local variety show, but when a dead body turns up, the festivities are spoiled.
- In addition, the production proves a good 55 minutes too long, which spoils an otherwise excellent evening.
- To say too much would be to spoil the occasion, but there are twists, turns and horrific blood curdling scenes of carnage.
Synonyms ruin, wreck, destroy, upset, undo, mess up, make a mess of, dash, sabotage, scupper, scotch, torpedo, blast, vitiate cast a shadow over, cast a pall over, cloud, darken, take the shine off, put a damper on, take the enjoyment/pleasure out of, take the edge off upset someone's apple cart, cook someone's goose informal foul up, louse up, muck up, queer, screw up, put the kibosh on, banjax, blow a hole in, do for, nix British informal cock up, dish, muller, queer someone's pitch, throw a spanner in the works of North American informal rain on someone's parade, throw a monkey wrench in the works of Australian informal cruel, euchre vulgar slang bugger up, fuck up, balls up archaic bring to naught - 1.2British Mark (a ballot paper) incorrectly so as to make one's vote invalid, especially as a gesture of protest.
（尤指作为一种抗议形式）错填（选票）令其作废 the group called on its supporters to spoil their papers Example sentencesExamples - Even during the now-pivotal 2000 election, when Rage was so tight their voice actually could have made a difference, the band spoiled their ballot.
- 1.3no object (of food) become unfit for eating.
（食物）变质，腐败 I've got some ham that'll spoil if we don't eat it tonight 我有些火腿，如果今晚我们不吃掉的话会坏掉的。 Example sentencesExamples - Restaurant and bar owners complained that the beer frequently spoiled before they could sell it.
- Sometimes there are crops that won't grow, grain that spoils, or a piece of machinery turns out to be a lemon.
- The slide started a couple years ago when grain being stored there spoiled.
- ‘There are misperceptions - they ask why doesn't the milk spoil if it's not refrigerated,’ says Capelli.
- Give the same role and we all would be better off watching ground beef spoil.
- Did you know that honey is the only food that won't spoil?
- Grapes consisted of an actual bunch hanging on a string; as it spoiled, individual grapes spatted on the floor.
- Some farmers will even stick wooden fence posts into wet grain in the bins to keep it from spoiling - amazing, but it helps!
Synonyms go bad, go off, go rancid, turn, go sour, sour, go mouldy, moulder, become addled, curdle, become rotten, rot, perish, decompose, decay, putrefy
2Harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent. 把（孩子）宠坏，溺爱 the last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas 我最不想干的就是宠坏托马斯。 Example sentencesExamples - The boys are the spoiled children of rich, influential families.
- And I was so spoiled that I had a very, let's say, ‘heavenly’ idea of the world.
- She spoiled her son all his life, and always believed that her family was better than Lindo's because they were richer.
- She is beautiful, popular, spoiled, and having a great time spending her father's money.
- Another reason I could write that book was being an only child for so long, and spoiled, I never have believed that there could be consequences to my actions.
- Though he is faster to commit to Lola, he is selfish and spoiled.
- Simon Vincent plays the Birlings' alcoholic dandy of a son and perfectly exposes the irony present when a parent accuses their child of being spoilt.
- The Children's Hour is about a spoiled brat at a boarding school who can't get her way and accuses two of the teachers of having a lesbian affair.
- Though she was born a rich and spoiled girl, she ends up relatively poor and meek.
- Wickham paints a dreadful picture of Darcy as a selfish and spoiled child who grew into a heartless and unjust man.
- Until then I had been a very spoiled child by my mother, my grandpa and my maternal family which was kind of a biblical family.
- Ector serves as the Daddy, although not one who has spoiled his adopted son.
- Although beautiful, she is quick-tempered and spoiled.
- Both husband and wife turn to Hunt for help, each implying that the other is mentally unbalanced, terrorizing or spoiling their only child, the five year old Alec.
- As for families, children are spoiled and unfit for any labor, too soft to hold up to any pain, while the parents neglect everything but making money and do not care about excellence at all.
- She was sweet and sensitive, but also spoiled, and could be bold.
- They are spoiled rotten rich brats led by an attorney's son.
- Others chided her for spoiling him and she even tried to wean him off but could not bear to see his drawn face.
- Mrs. Reed is a rich, pretentious and condescending woman, and her children are terribly spoiled, cruel and rude.
- When an actor who looks like he or she is still in middle school behaves like a spoiled, insolent brat, it's nothing but par for the course.
Synonyms overindulge, pamper, indulge, mollycoddle, cosset, coddle, baby, spoon-feed, feather-bed, wait on hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, wrap in cotton wool, overparent, kill with kindness nanny, nursemaid dote on archaic cocker - 2.1 Treat with great or excessive kindness, consideration, or generosity.
悉心照料；娇纵，百般照顾 breakfast in bed—you're spoiling me! 在床上吃早餐——你要把我惯坏了！ Example sentencesExamples - Instead, old street associates of his mother spoilt him with gifts.
- In another two scenes at a local cabaret venue, he spoils us with a couple more songs.
- She offers to let him ride again - it is the first time she gets to spoil a man.
- It is Christmas time again, and the family spoils Beth with presents.
- Captain Auld considers Douglass to have been spoiled by life in the city.
- ‘We're spoiled here in L.A.,’ admits Schmidt, referring to the outdoor living possibilities presented by the area's coastal climate.
- She tells Sancho that he can take his donkey with him when he becomes governor and spoil him.
- When she leaves him, she is pregnant with his son, whom she spoils with gifts and excess once born.
- Years ago, before my wife passed away, my wife spoiled me.
- She begs him to ride the swing first - it is the first time in her life that she gets the chance to spoil Paul - or any man, for that matter.
- One realizes how much the director's best work has spoilt us.
3be spoiling forno object Be extremely or aggressively eager for. 极度渴望；跃跃欲试 Cooper was spoiling for a fight 库伯极度渴望打一架。 Example sentencesExamples - As if publishers don't have enough to worry about, suddenly the man who oversees one of the greatest multimedia powers on earth is spoiling for a turf war.
- But you did not drive out the restless new spirit which is always spoiling for a fight.
- He's not able to suggest much in the name of what should be done, but the king is clearly spoiling for action.
- All right younger brother, you've been spoiling for this for weeks.
- Liam sings it like a man who's spoiling for a fight.
- These days everyone seems to be spoiling for a fight.
- Not everyone, however, is spoiling for a fight.
- Many of the girls who greeted Em warmly happened to date him at one time or another in their lives, and were spoiling for righteous retribution.
- But the drama was only just beginning and, as the Lords began debating the bill, it became obvious that they were spoiling for a fight.
- I didn't bother speaking because he was spoiling for a fight.
Synonyms eager for, itching for, looking for, keen to have, raring for, after, bent on, set on, on the lookout for, longing for 4archaic Rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence. 〈古〉抢劫（人，地方），掠夺 the enemy entered into Hereford, spoiled and fired the city, and razed the walls to the ground Synonyms ransack, steal from, plunder, rob, raid, loot, rifle, sack
noun spɔɪlspɔɪl 1usually spoilsGoods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place. 赃物；掠夺物 the looters carried their spoils away 趁火打劫者拿着抢来的财物逃跑了。 Example sentencesExamples - And where exactly did Adam read this inspirational tale, which recounts a Roman troop hauling away some feminine spoils of war, much to the kidnapped ladies' delight?
- He is able to reign in the outlaws when necessary, as when spoils are being split.
- According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the procession.
- Finding himself the victor he takes an injured Tracy as his spoil of war.
- Seeking to launder the spoils of a diamond heist, he visited the studio of Nicolas Poussin in early 1631 and purchased two paintings.
- When women refuse to be exchanged as war spoils, brides, or sacrifices, the system that was supposed to be cemented by these exchanges instead breaks down.
- The Romans let victorious generals keep slaves and other spoils of war.
- It's important that I get a fair share of the spoils.
- He goes along with Jan's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo but has no qualms about helping himself to the spoils of war.
- Men began to seek out new territories, mine for wealth, and battle each other for the spoils of war.
- In football, the spoils go to the team that wins on the field, not the team that uses lobbyists and extortion behind closed doors.
- Napoleon, however, claimed it as spoils in 1807.
- Needless to say, these two films shared the spoils, winning most of the major awards between them.
- The spoils of plunder were divided between temples, with the victor keeping his share.
- As a result he becomes entangled in the collusions and convolutions one would expect from Ripley, and is then coerced into an escalating crime scheme whose spoils he hopes to leave behind for his family.
- He dispersed the spoils among his men and made it known that only those who fought would get a part of the booty.
- We've always been incredibly good at this sort of imperialistic thing of bringing back the spoils of our plunders overseas and putting a unique twist on them, and a little bit of dry British humor.
- Having grown used to a privileged lifestyle, sleeping over at the palace and stuff, he liked it so much he wanted a share in the spoils.
- Then comes the division of spoils, with a good amount going to the church, and widows and children, before the division among the outlaws.
- Locksley cheers the castle's demise, and tells his men to collect their spoils and bring them to the forest for equal division among the men.
Synonyms booty, loot, stolen goods, plunder, ill-gotten gains, haul, pickings, takings informal, dated swag, boodle benefits, advantages, perks formal perquisites rare appanages 2mass noun Waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation. （掘土、疏浚、采矿时挖出的）废土；弃石方 煤矿渣土。 Example sentencesExamples - In addition, all the run-off of the spoil caused the river to silt up and make it useless for navigation.
- Steeped in stress because a spoil heap left from strip-mining threatens to crash down on his home, he spends most of his time sitting on a bicycle seat atop a 40-foot flag pole.
- Each labourer had his troop of small boys, carrying the excavation spoils in baskets to the surface.
- Down there in the mud the diggers heap spoil into piles.
- In strip mine spoils in southeastern Ohio, values may be as low as pH 2.0.
- Severe compaction sometimes occurs when the spoil or topsoil material is moved when too wet during the reclamation process.
- These tests have yielded two species well-suited for planting on mine spoils or along roadsides.
- It also looks at how existing spoil heaps are being leveled and landscaped.
- For corn, select only those sites where the mixed topsoil-upper subsoil placed over the spoil is of silt-loam or silty-clay loam texture.
PhrasesHave so many options that it is difficult to make a choice. 〈英〉面对众多选择，难以决定取舍 Example sentencesExamples - The only problem might be one of being spoilt for choice.
- When it comes to gardening television, we've always been spoilt for choice here in Ireland.
- To my surprise, we were spoilt for choice on the food front too.
- There were so many good dogs there, you were spoilt for choice.
- The show's producers have been spoilt for choice.
- When your wanderings are over, you'll be spoilt for choice for restaurants.
- As a special effects bonanza, you are spoilt for choice.
- People in Wiltshire will be spoilt for choice in how to spend this bank holiday weekend.
- York has already been spoilt for choice when it comes to music this weekend.
- Ms Donovan, said: ‘The selection panel was spoilt for choice.’
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'to plunder'): shortening of Old French espoille (noun), espoillier (verb), from Latin spoliare, from spolium 'plunder, skin stripped from an animal', or a shortening of despoil. Rhymesboil, Boyle, broil, coil, Dáil, Doyle, embroil, Fianna Fáil, foil, Hoyle, moil, noil, oil, roil, Royle, soil, toil, voile Definition of spoil in US English: spoilverbspɔɪlspoil [with object]1Diminish or destroy the value or quality of. 损害；破坏；毁坏；糟蹋 I wouldn't want to spoil your fun 我不想扫你的兴。 a series of political blunders spoiled their chances of being re-elected 一系列重大政治失误毁掉了他们重新当选的机会。 Example sentencesExamples - To describe any further than this is to spoil the fun.
- I don't know, but it's certainly odd - not that it spoils the fun in any way.
- These two things have rather spoilt the film for me, and if anyone else has seen it, I'd be interested in their thoughts.
- The audience are audible throughout but not in such a way as to spoil the audio quality.
- Unfortunately to tell more would be to give things away I do not wish to spoil for you.
- I'm dying to tell you exactly how he did it, but I don't want to spoil any surprises.
- Without spoiling too many details about the plot, his detailed planning suggests a level of thought and commitment that few people could match.
- To say much more would spoil the fun - and great fun it is.
- I don't want to spoil the fun, but trust me, you should get a laugh out of this film.
- It's hardly a story you can spoil, I don't think, anyway.
- And then I went and spoiled it all by buying this trade paperback.
- However, even this isn't enough to spoil the film.
- Part of the enjoyment in watching this movie is that the viewer doesn't know where the story is going, so I won't spoil the fun by giving away plot points.
- I'd tell you the lines, but then it would just end up spoiling the fun for you.
- Am I spoiling things by saying you're in for a lot more disappointment before the series is over?
- When I saw it first at Venice last year, where it was a deserved prizewinner, the effect was spoiled by - of all things - the showing of the reels in the wrong order.
- I can't really talk about it without spoiling it, but the Big Suprise Twist Ending is idiotic and cliched and I'm almost tempted to spoil it just on principle.
- To actually meet him would probably have spoiled it though.
- Just give the disappointing sequel a miss for fears of spoiling the excellence that lies within this self-contained laid-back comedic charmer.
- It would spoil the mood you've created with the show.
Synonyms mar, damage, impair, blemish, disfigure, blight, flaw, deface, scar, injure, harm - 1.1 Prevent someone from enjoying (an occasion or event)
破坏…的兴致 she was afraid of spoiling Christmas for the rest of the family 她担心破坏家里人过圣诞节的兴致。 Example sentencesExamples - In addition, the production proves a good 55 minutes too long, which spoils an otherwise excellent evening.
- I don't want to get into too many details here, lest I spoil the experience for you.
- Finally, at half past seven the guests agreed it was a pity to spoil a good dinner and seated themselves to a delicious meal.
- It's time for the local variety show, but when a dead body turns up, the festivities are spoiled.
- I have been at enough shows spoiled by drunken fools trying to steal the spotlight for 5 minutes of fame, but the volunteers were well-behaved, funny, and added to the momentum of the show.
- Theater owners like to throw up their hands and blame the shortcomings of the patrons and films, but they're not acknowledging their role in spoiling a once-magical experience.
- To say too much would be to spoil the occasion, but there are twists, turns and horrific blood curdling scenes of carnage.
Synonyms ruin, wreck, destroy, upset, undo, mess up, make a mess of, dash, sabotage, scupper, scotch, torpedo, blast, vitiate - 1.2British Mark (a ballot paper) incorrectly so as to make one's vote invalid, especially as a gesture of protest.
（尤指作为一种抗议形式）错填（选票）令其作废 the group called on its supporters to spoil their papers Example sentencesExamples - Even during the now-pivotal 2000 election, when Rage was so tight their voice actually could have made a difference, the band spoiled their ballot.
- 1.3no object (of food) become unfit for eating.
（食物）变质，腐败 I've got some ham that'll spoil if we don't eat it tonight 我有些火腿，如果今晚我们不吃掉的话会坏掉的。 Example sentencesExamples - Some farmers will even stick wooden fence posts into wet grain in the bins to keep it from spoiling - amazing, but it helps!
- Restaurant and bar owners complained that the beer frequently spoiled before they could sell it.
- Sometimes there are crops that won't grow, grain that spoils, or a piece of machinery turns out to be a lemon.
- The slide started a couple years ago when grain being stored there spoiled.
- Give the same role and we all would be better off watching ground beef spoil.
- ‘There are misperceptions - they ask why doesn't the milk spoil if it's not refrigerated,’ says Capelli.
- Grapes consisted of an actual bunch hanging on a string; as it spoiled, individual grapes spatted on the floor.
- Did you know that honey is the only food that won't spoil?
Synonyms go bad, go off, go rancid, turn, go sour, sour, go mouldy, moulder, become addled, curdle, become rotten, rot, perish, decompose, decay, putrefy
2Harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent. 把（孩子）宠坏，溺爱 the last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas 我最不想干的就是宠坏托马斯。 Example sentencesExamples - Mrs. Reed is a rich, pretentious and condescending woman, and her children are terribly spoiled, cruel and rude.
- Both husband and wife turn to Hunt for help, each implying that the other is mentally unbalanced, terrorizing or spoiling their only child, the five year old Alec.
- Ector serves as the Daddy, although not one who has spoiled his adopted son.
- Wickham paints a dreadful picture of Darcy as a selfish and spoiled child who grew into a heartless and unjust man.
- The Children's Hour is about a spoiled brat at a boarding school who can't get her way and accuses two of the teachers of having a lesbian affair.
- She spoiled her son all his life, and always believed that her family was better than Lindo's because they were richer.
- When an actor who looks like he or she is still in middle school behaves like a spoiled, insolent brat, it's nothing but par for the course.
- Simon Vincent plays the Birlings' alcoholic dandy of a son and perfectly exposes the irony present when a parent accuses their child of being spoilt.
- Others chided her for spoiling him and she even tried to wean him off but could not bear to see his drawn face.
- As for families, children are spoiled and unfit for any labor, too soft to hold up to any pain, while the parents neglect everything but making money and do not care about excellence at all.
- Until then I had been a very spoiled child by my mother, my grandpa and my maternal family which was kind of a biblical family.
- Another reason I could write that book was being an only child for so long, and spoiled, I never have believed that there could be consequences to my actions.
- Though she was born a rich and spoiled girl, she ends up relatively poor and meek.
- And I was so spoiled that I had a very, let's say, ‘heavenly’ idea of the world.
- She was sweet and sensitive, but also spoiled, and could be bold.
- Though he is faster to commit to Lola, he is selfish and spoiled.
- Although beautiful, she is quick-tempered and spoiled.
- They are spoiled rotten rich brats led by an attorney's son.
- The boys are the spoiled children of rich, influential families.
- She is beautiful, popular, spoiled, and having a great time spending her father's money.
Synonyms overindulge, pamper, indulge, mollycoddle, cosset, coddle, baby, spoon-feed, feather-bed, wait on hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, wrap in cotton wool, overparent, kill with kindness - 2.1 Treat with great or excessive kindness, consideration, or generosity.
悉心照料；娇纵，百般照顾 breakfast in bed—you're spoiling me! 在床上吃早餐——你要把我惯坏了！ Example sentencesExamples - She tells Sancho that he can take his donkey with him when he becomes governor and spoil him.
- It is Christmas time again, and the family spoils Beth with presents.
- She offers to let him ride again - it is the first time she gets to spoil a man.
- Years ago, before my wife passed away, my wife spoiled me.
- She begs him to ride the swing first - it is the first time in her life that she gets the chance to spoil Paul - or any man, for that matter.
- When she leaves him, she is pregnant with his son, whom she spoils with gifts and excess once born.
- Instead, old street associates of his mother spoilt him with gifts.
- One realizes how much the director's best work has spoilt us.
- ‘We're spoiled here in L.A.,’ admits Schmidt, referring to the outdoor living possibilities presented by the area's coastal climate.
- Captain Auld considers Douglass to have been spoiled by life in the city.
- In another two scenes at a local cabaret venue, he spoils us with a couple more songs.
3be spoiling forno object Be extremely or aggressively eager for. 极度渴望；跃跃欲试 Cooper was spoiling for a fight 库伯极度渴望打一架。 Example sentencesExamples - As if publishers don't have enough to worry about, suddenly the man who oversees one of the greatest multimedia powers on earth is spoiling for a turf war.
- I didn't bother speaking because he was spoiling for a fight.
- Not everyone, however, is spoiling for a fight.
- These days everyone seems to be spoiling for a fight.
- Many of the girls who greeted Em warmly happened to date him at one time or another in their lives, and were spoiling for righteous retribution.
- He's not able to suggest much in the name of what should be done, but the king is clearly spoiling for action.
- But the drama was only just beginning and, as the Lords began debating the bill, it became obvious that they were spoiling for a fight.
- All right younger brother, you've been spoiling for this for weeks.
- But you did not drive out the restless new spirit which is always spoiling for a fight.
- Liam sings it like a man who's spoiling for a fight.
Synonyms eager for, itching for, looking for, keen to have, raring for, after, bent on, set on, on the lookout for, longing for 4archaic Rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence. 〈古〉抢劫（人，地方），掠夺 Synonyms ransack, steal from, plunder, rob, raid, loot, rifle, sack
nounspɔɪlspoil 1usually spoilsGoods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place. 赃物；掠夺物 the looters carried their spoils away 趁火打劫者拿着抢来的财物逃跑了。 Example sentencesExamples - It's important that I get a fair share of the spoils.
- And where exactly did Adam read this inspirational tale, which recounts a Roman troop hauling away some feminine spoils of war, much to the kidnapped ladies' delight?
- Men began to seek out new territories, mine for wealth, and battle each other for the spoils of war.
- Having grown used to a privileged lifestyle, sleeping over at the palace and stuff, he liked it so much he wanted a share in the spoils.
- As a result he becomes entangled in the collusions and convolutions one would expect from Ripley, and is then coerced into an escalating crime scheme whose spoils he hopes to leave behind for his family.
- Locksley cheers the castle's demise, and tells his men to collect their spoils and bring them to the forest for equal division among the men.
- We've always been incredibly good at this sort of imperialistic thing of bringing back the spoils of our plunders overseas and putting a unique twist on them, and a little bit of dry British humor.
- Then comes the division of spoils, with a good amount going to the church, and widows and children, before the division among the outlaws.
- Finding himself the victor he takes an injured Tracy as his spoil of war.
- Needless to say, these two films shared the spoils, winning most of the major awards between them.
- He dispersed the spoils among his men and made it known that only those who fought would get a part of the booty.
- In football, the spoils go to the team that wins on the field, not the team that uses lobbyists and extortion behind closed doors.
- The Romans let victorious generals keep slaves and other spoils of war.
- Napoleon, however, claimed it as spoils in 1807.
- The spoils of plunder were divided between temples, with the victor keeping his share.
- Seeking to launder the spoils of a diamond heist, he visited the studio of Nicolas Poussin in early 1631 and purchased two paintings.
- He is able to reign in the outlaws when necessary, as when spoils are being split.
- When women refuse to be exchanged as war spoils, brides, or sacrifices, the system that was supposed to be cemented by these exchanges instead breaks down.
- According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the procession.
- He goes along with Jan's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo but has no qualms about helping himself to the spoils of war.
Synonyms booty, loot, stolen goods, plunder, ill-gotten gains, haul, pickings, takings benefits, advantages, perks 2Waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation. （掘土、疏浚、采矿时挖出的）废土；弃石方 Example sentencesExamples - For corn, select only those sites where the mixed topsoil-upper subsoil placed over the spoil is of silt-loam or silty-clay loam texture.
- Each labourer had his troop of small boys, carrying the excavation spoils in baskets to the surface.
- Severe compaction sometimes occurs when the spoil or topsoil material is moved when too wet during the reclamation process.
- In addition, all the run-off of the spoil caused the river to silt up and make it useless for navigation.
- In strip mine spoils in southeastern Ohio, values may be as low as pH 2.0.
- Down there in the mud the diggers heap spoil into piles.
- It also looks at how existing spoil heaps are being leveled and landscaped.
- These tests have yielded two species well-suited for planting on mine spoils or along roadsides.
- Steeped in stress because a spoil heap left from strip-mining threatens to crash down on his home, he spends most of his time sitting on a bicycle seat atop a 40-foot flag pole.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): shortening of Old French espoille (noun), espoillier (verb), from Latin spoliare, from spolium ‘plunder, skin stripped from an animal’, or a shortening of despoil. |