0 to destroy or reduce the pleasure, interest, or beauty of something:
1 to treat someone very or too well, especially by being extremely generous:
2 to allow a child to do or have everything that it wants to, usually so that it expects to get everything it wants and does not show respect to other people:
3 earth, stones, etc. dug out from a hole in the ground:
a spoil heap
4 goods, advantages, profits, etc. that you get by your actions or because of your position or situation:
5 to destroy or damage something, or to become destroyed or damaged:
He wasn't enjoying the occasion so he thought he'd spoil it for everyone else - it was very childish of him.
Knowing the ending already didn't spoil my enjoyment of the film.
The government is understandably reluctant to do anything which might spoil the harmonious relations between the country's ethnic groups.
I won't have any chocolate, thanks. It will spoil my appetite.
When it comes to accommodation, visitors would be spoilt for choice!
At the government formation stage a formateur selects a coalition which bargains over policy and the distribution of office spoils.
Most citizens probably want the constitution to be stable and ordinary laws dividing spoils among interest groups to be unstable.
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