spoil
/spɔɪl/ verbe B1En français : piller, gâter, gâcher, tourner
- To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable. · All this sun spoils me for vacations in the far North.
- To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay. · Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge; otherwise it will spoil.
- To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.
- To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
- To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
- To be very eager (for something).
He/she/it spoils · Prétérit spoiled · Participe passé spoiled · Forme en -ing spoiling
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- spoil
- He/she/it
- spoils
- Prétérit
- spoiled
- Participe passé
- spoiled
- Forme en -ing
- spoiling
Dans la bibliothèque
Rachel, ponder as she might, could make nothing of it and her afternoon’s enjoyment was spoiled.
“Only be as good and kind to her as you can without spoiling her.
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.
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