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unspoil

unspoil verb: to make less spoiled.

Verb

unspoil (third-person singular simple present unspoils, present participle unspoiling, simple past and past participle unspoiled or unspoilt)

  1. (transitive) To make less spoiled.
    • The week before, watching her work, Logerwell had called out to her, "I can tell you right now, if you mollycoddle a horse he'll turn out spoilt, and I've had to unspoil plenty of horses that've been girl-broke. […]2007, Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN
    • A few negative people can ruin an entire office environment, which shows you how powerful negativity is. It is so bad, even positive workers can't “unspoil” it.2007, Donald Trump, Bill Zanker, Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 155

Forms of unspoil

third-person singular presentunspoils
present participleunspoiling
past participleunspoiled
pastunspoiled
past participleunspoilt
pastunspoilt

Origin of unspoil

From un- + spoil.

Questions about unspoil

What does unspoil mean?
Unspoil means to make less spoiled.
What part of speech is unspoil?
Unspoil is a verb.
What is the past tense of unspoil?
The past tense of unspoil is unspoiled.

Words near unspoil in the dictionary

  1. unsplit
  2. unsplits
  3. unsplittable
  4. unsplitted
  5. unsplitting
  6. unspoil
  7. unspoilable
  8. unspoilableness
  9. unspoilably
  10. unspoiled
  11. unspoiledness

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