[spɔɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- diminish or destroy the value or quality of
(e.g: I wouldn't want to spoil your fun)

- harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent
(e.g: the last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas)

- be extremely or aggressively eager for
(e.g: Cooper was spoiling for a fight)

- rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence
(e.g: the enemy entered into Hereford, spoiled and fired the city, and razed the walls to the ground)


Phrases:
- be spoilt for choice

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): shortening of Old French espoille (noun), espoillier (verb), from Latin spoliare, from spolium ‘plunder, skin stripped from an animal’, or a shortening of despoil

[spɔɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place
(e.g: the looters carried their spoils away)

- waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation
(e.g: colliery spoil)


Phrases:
- be spoilt for choice

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): shortening of Old French espoille (noun), espoillier (verb), from Latin spoliare, from spolium ‘plunder, skin stripped from an animal’, or a shortening of despoil