Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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spoil

/spɔɪl/ verb, noun

Forms spoils spoiling spoiled spoilt

  1. verb (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour.
  2. verb (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil.
  3. verb (ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
  5. verb (transitive) 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.”
  6. verb (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
  7. verb (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay. “Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge; otherwise it will spoil.”
  8. verb (transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.
  9. noun (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
  10. noun (archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
  11. noun (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.

Synonyms

damage destroy sully ruin coddle pamper indulge mollycoddle ball up blight bumble botch bugger up bungle contaminate corrupt crab deprave disrupt disturb spoiling spoilage spoliation spoilation despoilation despoilment despoliation bodge fumble botch up

Antonyms

aid cultivate foster nurture support sustain uphold prop up hold up bolster

Etymology

From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoliō, spoliāre (“pillage, ruin, spoil”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; --with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22.
  2. verb To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
  3. verb To practice plunder or robbery.
  4. verb To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.

Etymology [F. spolier, OF. espoilelier, fr. L. spoliare, fr. spolium spoil. Cf. Despoil, Spoliation.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. espoille, L. spolium.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “spoil”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “spoil” (best matches first).

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