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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Spoil \Spoil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spoiled}or {Spoilt}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Spoiling}.] [F. spolier, OF. espoilelier, fr. L.
spoliare, fr. spolium spoil. Cf. {Despoil}, {Spoliation}.]
1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; --
with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil
one of his goods or possession. ``Ye shall spoil the
Egyptians.'' --Ex. iii. 22.
My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
his kingdom, and deprived of eues. --Pope.
2. To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
No man can enter into a strong man's house, and
spoil his goods, except he will first bind the
strong man. --Mark iii.
27.
3. To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to
mar.
Spiritual pride spoils many graces. --Jer. Taylor.
4. To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin;
to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled
by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
资料来源 : WordNet®
spoilt
adj 1: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or
oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" [syn: {spoiled}]
2: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: {bad}, {spoiled}]
3: affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or
prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urtan districts"
[syn: {blighted}]
spoil
v 1: 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" [syn: {botch},
{bumble}, {fumble}, {botch up}, {muff}, {blow}, {flub},
{screw up}, {ball up}, {muck up}, {bungle}, {fluff}, {bollix},
{bollix up}, {bollocks}, {bollocks up}, {bobble}, {mishandle},
{louse up}, {foul up}, {mess up}, {fuck up}]
2: become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten
before it spoils" [syn: {go bad}]
3: alter from the original [syn: {corrupt}]
4: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
{pamper}, {featherbed}, {cosset}, {cocker}, {baby}, {coddle},
{mollycoddle}, {indulge}]
5: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What
ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing
September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: {thwart}, {queer},
{scotch}, {foil}, {cross}, {frustrate}, {baffle}, {bilk}]
6: have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is
itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a
fight" [syn: {itch}]
7: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the
beautiful country" [syn: {rape}, {despoil}, {violate}, {plunder}]
8: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: {mar}, {impair},
{deflower}, {vitiate}]
[also: {spoilt}]
spoil
n 1: (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in
war); "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
2: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her
spoiling my dress was deliberate" [syn: {spoiling}, {spoilage}]
3: the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: {spoliation},
{spoilation}, {despoilation}, {despoilment}, {despoliation}]
[also: {spoilt}]
spoilt
See {spoil}