spoil
/spɔɪl/ noun C2- Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- 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.
Plural spoils
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If you stop to think it over you spoil it all.
All the school girls and boys had one golden afternoon gathering them, coming home in the clear, echoing twilight with arms and baskets full of flowery spoil.
As it was, he was free to, “spoil Anne”--Marilla’s phrasing--as much as he liked.
Perhaps you’d like me to make it up for her, too, seeing that if Marilla was to make it Anne would probably get wind of it before the time and spoil the surprise?
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