Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: spoil
IPA transcription: [sp'ɔɪl]
Pronunciations of spoil
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verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch_up, muff, blow, flub, screw_up, ball_up, spoil, muck_up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix_up, bollocks, bollocks_up, bobble, mishandle, louse_up, foul_up, mess_up, fuck_up
    Meaning: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
  • Synonyms: spoil, go_bad
    Meaning: become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
  • Synonyms: corrupt, spoil
    Meaning: alter from the original
Usage examples
  • 'That would spoil all.
  • That would spoil my plans."
  • "That would spoil everything.
  • How you are going to spoil me!
  • Lamb is very apt to spoil in warm weather.
  • Play-acting hadn't spoiled her--couldn't spoil her.
  • We come your dungeon walls to raze, your citadel to spoil!
  • Those articles provide for a certain distribution of the spoil.
  • Oh! Louise, don't spoil the splendid future which awaits us both!
  • How can we share the spoil before it has been completely gathered?"
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