spoil

/spɔɪl/ verb (past tense and past participle spoiled, spoilt)

Translation

MAKE BAD [T] › to stop something from being enjoyable or successful

bozmak, berbat etmek, içine etmek

The picnic was spoiled by the bad weather. I don't want to spoil the fun, but could you turn the music down a bit?1973

CHILD [T] › If you spoil a child, you let them have anything they want or do anything they want, usually making them badly behaved.

şımartmak, yüz vermek

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TREAT WELL [T] › to treat someone very well, buying them things or doing things for them

kayırmak, torpil yapmak

He's always sending flowers - he absolutely spoils me!932

FOOD [I] formal › If food spoils, it starts to decay and you cannot eat it.

bozulmak, çürümek, ekşimek, kokmak

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(Definition of spoil verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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