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spoil noun

  /spɔɪl/
  • (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
 Beute
  • (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
 Abraum, Aushub, Schotter

spoils noun

  /spɔɪlz/
Beute

spoil verb

  /spɔɪl/
  • (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable. [from 16th c.]
 kaputtmachen, verderben, ruinieren
  • (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.]
 kaputtmachen, verwöhnen, verziehen, verderben, ruinieren
  • (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay. [from 17th c.]
 verderben, schlecht werden
  • (transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
 den Spaß verderben, spoilern
  • (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil. [from 14th c.]
 plündern

spoiled adjective

  /spɔɪld/
  • (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
 verwöhnt, verzogen
  • (of food) That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
 verdorben
spoils of war
Kriegsbeute, Siegesbeute
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