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Meanings of spoil in English
Portuguese
furto Catalan
despullament The act of stripping and taking by force.
Synonyms
Examples for "baby"
Examples for "baby"
1
She had made that decision long ago; her baby was the law.
2
Jai's health and the viability of our baby were at great risk.
3
Another baby, born the previous year, left as his family moved away.
4
The main risks to the baby are premature birth and respiratory problems.
5
We wish that a baby will soon grace your family, Knotgrass said.
1
News Corp is in an better position to indulge in public soul-searching.
2
IS IT possible to indulge in national stereotyping without being a racist?
3
Covid-19 has also given politicians a chance to indulge their protectionist instincts.
4
And these indulge in subtleties in order to excuse the most wicked.
5
Besides, the South with its slave labor could not indulge in manufacturing.
1
Other animals in the range include elephants, alligators, giraffes and cocker spaniels.
2
This was the moment when the red cocker's tail came to grief.
3
He sounds like our cocker spaniel puppy, and still I don't understand.
4
I don't have to wait long for the muted clitter of cocker claws.
5
The seven puppies include five beagles and two beagle-cocker spaniel mixes.
1
I had no idea that he would be such an old coddle.
2
We make no attempt to coddle the people who work with us.
3
It's not that and you know it, Joe, so don't coddle me.
4
And so we left them alone awhile, to coddle over their raptures.
5
Come on, and don't be a molly-coddle, cried Tommy, wild to go.
1
I'd a humor to pamper myself so long as my side protested.
2
I knew how to pamper myself and indulge in a slow morning.
3
How much you pamper yourself after that is entirely up to you.
4
In this hell of theirs they will even pamper his beastly body.'
5
And you don't have to pamper them-particularlyin the matter of food.
1
Great featherbed clouds are billowing across the sun, their edges brilliant silver.
2
Her featherbed was twice as wide and lofty as my straw-and-rag-filled shakedown.
3
The bed hangings were askew and the featherbed dumped unceremoniously on the floor.
4
The bedding smelled of down must, and the pungent straw beneath the featherbed.
5
For a moment she thought about the High King's featherbed.
1
But they got four in return: Nick is no mollycoddle, you know.
2
And they say he's the most awful mollycoddle-looksjust like a girl.
3
We don't need a mollycoddle like you here in the Naval Academy!
4
We didn't bring the boy out here to make a mollycoddle of him.
5
You don't want to make a mollycoddle of him, do you?
1
We must rally round and cosset this cove in no uncertain manner.
2
Not cosset her and spoil her for the next week or two.
3
She, bless her, should dandle and cosset them to her heart's content.
4
Miss Matilda looked miserably ill; and I prepared to comfort and cosset her.
5
I've never been the type to flatter and cosset my patients.
Usage of spoil in English
1
However, I also strongly believe in the right to spoil your vote.
2
I wanted to spoil the party by a long way, Abbott said.
3
No way was he going to let a woman spoil the moment.
4
We should not interfere in case we spoil an official criminal investigation.
5
The only result will be to spoil the control of the aeroplane.
6
Once people turn up, they are fully entitled to spoil their vote.
7
And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
8
Cut corn in the decrease of the moon, else it will spoil.
9
Surely, wife, you would not wish to spoil that moment for him?
10
I don't want to spoil it for people like my family members.
11
If you feel the need to go out and spoil yourself, fine.
12
I'd never let the best friend in the world spoil my wife.
13
It won't spoil your appreciation of what follows-atleast, I hope not.
14
Many hands make light work but too many cooks spoil the broth.
15
In France, they spoil us; but that was no business of mine.
16
It would spoil half the concert; but that did not matter-nothingmattered.
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Translations for spoil
Portuguese
Catalan
Spoil through the time
Spoil across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
South Africa
Common
United States of America
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