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How to pronounce “spoil”

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Pronunciation guide for spoil

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of spoil with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Networking Doesn’t Have to Feel GrossThey have so much that it will go to spoil.
Definition summary: (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour. [from 14th c.]

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Networking Doesn’t Have to Feel Gross

They have so much that it will go to spoil.

[Verb]
(transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour. [from 14th c.]
(transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil. [from 14th c.]
(ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). [from 14th c.]
(transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. [14th–19th c.]
(transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable. [from 16th c.]
(transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.]
(intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay. [from 17th c.]
(transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing. [from 19th c.]
(transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
(aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
(intransitive) To be very eager (for something). [from 19th c.]
[Noun]
(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
(archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
(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.