to spoil
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1.6
- verb
- /spɔɪl/
- In a tropical climate, cacao pods spoil quickly, rendering their transport on long trips by foot or canoe unlikely.
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Watch on YouTubeThey can stay on the shelf longer before they spoil.
- They can stay on the shelf longer before they spoil.
- In Texas and Louisiana and some of these places where they stored oil and so on, because oil will spoil, right?
- It's basically rice that's left out of room temperature to spoil for three or four days and a specific kind of yeast or fungus grows on it.
- Homer talks about it long, long before our modern era, if it was a thing that was done routinely, you had to cure the meat or it would spoil.
Examples
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Foods will also last longer before spoiling, allowing food to be distributed more easily.
Academic text (2012) -
The Southern Fleet suffered delays, a general fell ill, and food spoiled in the warm weather of South China.
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Well, if it were gonna spoil, we opened it the night before.
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We are running behind, and my breakfast will spoil.
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I don't want anything to spoil that day.
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- Don't spoil your dinner.
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- Now I shouldn't keep this open for too long or it will spoil.
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Let's save the cake for later so we don't spoil our dinner.
Fiction book (1993) -
Don't have any more, because it's gonna spoil your appetite.
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If you leave the milk out of the fridge, it will spoil quickly.
Synonyms
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2.1
Become unsafe to eat or use because it has spoiled
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4.4
To slowly fall into ruin because of age or neglect
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4.2
To slowly become weaker or fall apart because it is not cared for
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3.2
To become spoiled and no longer safe to eat or use
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Idioms
- Informal
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6.7
To give someone too much kindness and gifts so they expect special treatment
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How Spoiled
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Etymology
Spoil (of food: to go bad) grew from the same root spoliare and the idea of being ruined or made useless. So when food spoils it has been 'ruined' and is no longer good to eat.