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{
"term": "spoil",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "spoil",
"heSheIt": "spoils"
},
"pastSimple": "spoiled",
"pastParticiple": "spoiled",
"ingForm": "spoiling"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to change something good into something bad, unpleasant, etc.",
"sensetop": "spoil something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Our camping trip was spoilt by bad weather."
},
{
"text": "Don't let him spoil your evening."
},
{
"text": "The tall buildings have spoiled the view."
},
{
"text": "Don't eat too many nuts—you'll **spoil your appetite** *(= will no longer be hungry at the proper time to eat)*."
},
{
"text": "I won’t tell you what happens in the last chapter—I don’t want to spoil it for you."
},
{
"text": "Don't let the bad weather spoil your trip."
},
{
"text": "Her selfish behaviour completely spoiled the evening."
},
{
"text": "I don't want to spoil things for everyone else."
},
{
"text": "It would be a pity to spoil the surprise."
},
{
"text": "Now, don't be hard on the children and spoil their fun!"
},
{
"text": "The bad weather really spoilt things for us."
},
{
"text": "Why did they have to act so aggressively and spoil everything?"
},
{
"text": "I don't want to spoil your fun, but it's nearly time to go home."
},
{
"text": "The new buildings have completely spoiled the view."
},
{
"text": "The performance was spoilt by the constant noise from the audience."
},
{
"text": "Why do you always have to spoil everything?"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["completely", "quite", "rather"],
"verb + spoil": ["hate to", "not be going to", "not want to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to give a child everything that they ask for and not enough discipline in a way that has a bad effect on their character and behaviour",
"sensetop": "spoil somebody",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She spoils those kids of hers."
},
{
"text": "My grandparents used to **spoil me rotten**."
},
{
"text": "He spoils the children with expensive toys."
},
{
"text": "Those children are thoroughly spoiled!"
}
],
"synonyms": "overindulge",
"collocations": {
"preposition": ["with"],
"phrases": [
"be completely spoiled",
"be thoroughly spoiled",
"be utterly spoiled"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to make somebody/yourself happy by doing something special",
"sensetop": "spoil somebody/yourself",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Why not spoil yourself with a weekend in a top hotel?"
},
{
"text": "He really spoiled me on my birthday."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to become bad so that it can no longer be eaten",
"examples": [],
"synonyms": "go off (6)"
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to mark a ballot paper in a way that is not correct so the vote does not count, especially as a form of protest",
"sensetop": "spoil something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The group called on its supporters to spoil their ballot papers."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to want to fight with somebody very much",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to cause something good to fail because you did not spend a small but necessary amount of money or time on a small but essential part of it",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if too many people are involved in doing something, it will not be done well",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/spɔɪl/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoil__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/spɔɪlz/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoils__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/spɔɪld/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoiled__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/spɔɪlt/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoilt__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈspɔɪlɪŋ/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoiling__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/spɔɪl/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoil__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/spɔɪlz/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoils__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/spɔɪld/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoiled__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/spɔɪlt/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoilt__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈspɔɪlɪŋ/",
"audio": "sp/spoil/spoiling__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): shortening of Old French espoille (noun), espoillier (verb), from Latin spoliare, from spolium ‘plunder, skin stripped from an animal’, or a shortening of despoil."
}