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Mollycoddle vs. Spoil — What's the Difference?

Mollycoddle vs. Spoil — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Mollycoddle and Spoil

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Mollycoddle

To be overprotective and indulgent toward.

Spoil

To impair or destroy the quality or value of; ruin
Spoiled the dish by adding too much salt.

Mollycoddle

A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.

Spoil

To impair or destroy the enjoyment or experience of
Spoiled the movie by talking throughout it.

Mollycoddle

A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
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Spoil

To reveal details about (a movie or a book, for example) before someone has a chance to discover these details on their own
The article spoiled the next episode of my favorite TV show.

Mollycoddle

(transitive) To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.

Spoil

To harm the character of (a child) by overindulgence or leniency.

Mollycoddle

A pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.

Spoil

To plunder; despoil.

Mollycoddle

To pamper or coddle.

Spoil

To take by force.

Mollycoddle

A pampered darling; an effeminate man

Spoil

To become unfit for use or consumption, as from decay. Used especially of perishables, such as food.

Mollycoddle

Treat with excessive indulgence;
Grandparents often pamper the children
Let's not mollycoddle our students!

Spoil

Goods or property seized from a victim after a conflict, especially after a military victory.

Spoil

Incidental benefits reaped by a winner, especially political patronage enjoyed by a successful party or candidate.

Spoil

An object of plunder; prey.

Spoil

Refuse material removed from an excavation.

Spoil

(Archaic) The act of plundering; spoliation.

Spoil

To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.

Spoil

To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.

Spoil

To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).

Spoil

To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.

Spoil

(transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.

Spoil

(transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.

Spoil

(intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil.

Spoil

(transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

Spoil

(transitive) To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.

Spoil

(aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.

Spoil

(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.

Spoil

(archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.

Spoil

(uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.

Spoil

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; - with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possessions.
My sons their old, unhappy sire despise,Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes.

Spoil

To seize by violence; to take by force; to plunder.
No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man.

Spoil

To cause to decay and perish; to corrupt; to vitiate; to mar.
Spiritual pride spoils many graces.

Spoil

To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.

Spoil

To practice plunder or robbery.
Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil.

Spoil

To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.

Spoil

That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
Gentle gales,Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispenseNative perfumes, and whisper whence they stoleThose balmy spoils.

Spoil

Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; - commonly in the plural; as, to the victor belong the spoils.
From a principle of gratitude I adhered to the coalition; my vote was counted in the day of battle, but I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.

Spoil

That which is gained by strength or effort.
Each science and each art his spoil.

Spoil

The act or practice of plundering; robbery; waste.
The man that hath no music in himself,Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils.

Spoil

Corruption; cause of corruption.
Villainous company hath been the spoil of me.

Spoil

The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

Spoil

(usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war);
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

Spoil

The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it;
Her spoiling my dress was deliberate

Spoil

The act of stripping and taking by force

Spoil

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin;
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement

Spoil

Become unfit for consumption or use;
The meat must be eaten before it spoils

Spoil

Alter from the original

Spoil

Treat with excessive indulgence;
Grandparents often pamper the children
Let's not mollycoddle our students!

Spoil

Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
Foil your opponent

Spoil

Have a strong desire or urge to do something;
She is itching to start the project
He is spoiling for a fight

Spoil

Destroy and strip of its possession;
The soldiers raped the beautiful country

Spoil

Make imperfect;
Nothing marred her beauty

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