English-Italian translations for spoil

• andare a male
• bottino
  Questa procedura sembrerebbe quasi una spartizione del bottino. Such a procedure would almost smack of sharing out the spoils.
  Perché si legge in alcuni testi che il bottino dello Zaire sarebbe enorme? Why can we now read reports which state that the spoils to be gained in Zaire are 'enormous' ?
  La lotta imperialista ravvicinata per una parte del bottino sta diventando sempre più accanita, nonostante la strategia di cooperazione con gli Stati Uniti e la NATO. Imperialist infighting for a share of the spoils is hotting up, despite the strategy of cooperation with the USA and NATO.
• rovinare
  – Signor Presidente, l’ultima cosa che voglio è rovinare la festa. Mr President, the last thing I want to do is to spoil a party.
  Interrompere il finanziamento comunitario, però, significa rovinare tutto quello che è stato fatto. But to put an end to Community funding is to spoil what has been achieved.
  Non voglio rovinare la festa, onorevoli colleghi, ma siamo realisti. I do not want to spoil the party here, colleagues, but let us be realistic.
• viziare

Definition of spoil

• To strip of their arms or armour.
• To plunder, pillage .
• To carry off by force; to steal.
• To ruin; to damage in some way making it unfit for use.
• To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• To render invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• To reveal the ending or major events of ; to ruin by exposing it ahead of time
• Also in plural: '''spoils''') Plunder taken from an enemy or victim

Examples

• Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil.

Related words

• spoiled
• spoiler
• spoils
• spoiling
• spoilsport
• spoilt
• unspoilt
• despoil
• despoilment