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spoil VerbPlural: spoils - echar a perder, arruinar, dañar, averiar, dañar grandemente, dar al traste con, descacharrar, desgraciar, destartalar, estropear, estropearse, malear, pifiar, dar al través con; Synonyms: ruin, screw up, blight, blow out of the water, botch, bring into a state of disrepair, goof, goof off, goof up; Alter from the original.; Make imperfect. ; Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
They spoiled her happiness, Ellos desgraciaron su felicidad.
Nothing marred her beauty.
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out.
The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement.
- malcriar, maleducar, consentir, echar a perder, estropear con mimos, mimar en exceso, chiquear; Synonyms: pamper, raise badly, pet, bring up badly, overindulge, cosset, miseducate; Treat with excessive indulgence.
Ann spoiled her kids too much, Ana consintió a los chicos demasiado.
Grandparents often pamper the children.
Let's not mollycoddle our students!
- echar a perder, arruinar, amargar, malograr, matar la alegría de, acedar, aguar; Synonyms: ruin, bodge, bodge up, botch, botch up, bungle up, embitter, kill, kill the joy of; Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.; Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
Ann spoils the parties, Ana echa a perder las fiestas.
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out.
The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement.
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge.
Foil your opponent.
- descomponerse, echarse a perder, estropearse, desmejorarse, pasarse, salarse; Synonyms: become corrupted, decay, get spoiled, go bad, rot, become rotten, corrupt, decompose, deteriorate; Become unfit for consumption or use.
The bananas went bad, Se pasaron los plátanos.
The meat must be eaten before it spoils.
- deteriorar, malograr, deslucir, desmejorar, desvirtuar; Synonyms: damage, batter, deteriorate, impair, mar, waste, deface; Make imperfect. ; Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
They spoiled his gift, Ellos desvirtuaron su regalo.
Nothing marred her beauty.
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out.
The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement.
- echarse a perder, desvirtuarse; Synonyms: get ruined, go bad, go to pot, go to seed, go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin
His virtue spoiled, Su virtud se desvirtuó.
- saquear, someter a pillaje; Synonyms: forage, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rifle, sack; Destroy and strip of its possession.
The soldiers raped the beautiful country.
spoil Noun- botín; Synonyms: booty, loot; Valuables taken by violence (especially in war).
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
- expoliación; Synonyms: plundering, denudation, despoilment, despoliation, spoliation, violent dispossession; The act of stripping and taking by force.
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