spoil

For the verb: "to spoil"

Simple Past:	spoiled, spoilt
Past Participle:	spoiled, spoilt

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spoil/spɔɪl/

▶verb (past and past part. spoilt (chiefly Brit.) or spoiled)

• 1 diminish or destroy the value or quality of.

  ■ (of food) become unfit for eating.

  ■ mark (a ballot paper) incorrectly so as to invalidate one's vote.

• 2 harm the character of (a child) by being too indulgent.

  ■ treat with great or excessive kindness or generosity.

• 3 (be spoiling for) be extremely or aggressively eager for.

• 4 archaic rob by force or violence.

▶noun

• 1 (spoils) stolen goods.

• 2 waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation.

– phrases
be spoilt for choice Brit. have so many options that it is difficult to make a choice.

– derivatives
spoilage noun.

– origin ME: shortening of OFr. espoille (n.), espoillier (v.), from L. spoliare, from spolium ‘plunder, skin stripped from an animal’, or a shortening of despoil.