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spoil verb

  /spɔɪl/
  • (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay. [from 17th c.]
 hapantua, mädäntyä, mädätä, pilaantua
  • (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.]
 hemmotella, lelliä, pilata
  • (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable. [from 16th c.]
 pilata
  • (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.
 spoilata

spoiled adjective

  /spɔɪld/
  • (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
 hemmoteltu, poispilattu, pilattu

spoil noun

  /spɔɪl/
  • (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
 ryöstösaalis, saalis, sotasaalis
  • (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.
 jätemaa, jätemassa, louhe, ruoppausmassa

spoils noun

  /spɔɪlz/
saalis
spare the rod and spoil the child
joka vitsaa säästää, se lastaan vihaa
too many cooks spoil the broth
mitä useampi kokki, sitä huonompi soppa
spoil tip
täyttömäki
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