To spoil something is to damage it or to make it unusable. Spoiling a cake will make it dry and tasteless. Spoiling a project will make it difficult or impossible to finish.
The water was so cold that it started spoiling the food right away.
The wind was so strong that it was spoiling the leaves on the trees.
verb
To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
verb
To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
verb
To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
verb
To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
verb
To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
verb
To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
verb
Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
verb
To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
verb
To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
noun
That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
noun
Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
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The background spoils the image.
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The fruit was spoiled and fetid.
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But the oversized tags spoil the illustration.
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It spoils the overview and neutrality of the article.
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The hot weather spoiled the meat.
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It has the egotism and petulance of a spoiled child.
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Red links spoil the look of the page.
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She is the cutest but probably the most spoiled.
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I don't want to spoil the the anonymity of it.
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Examples just spoil the flow of the sentence.