spoilest
spoilest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of spoil.
Meaning of spoil
Verb
spoil (third-person singular simple present spoils, present participle spoiling, simple past and past participle spoiled or spoilt)
- To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour.
- To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil.
- All that herde hym wer amased and sayde: ys nott this he that spoylled them whych called on this name in Jerusalem?1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts ix:[21]
- To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
- Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
- To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
- No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 3:27
- 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.
- To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- Synonyms:
- coddle, pamper, indulge, mollycoddle
Origin of spoilest
spoil + -est
Questions about spoilest
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