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unspoil

verb

Etymology

From un- + spoil.

  1. derived from spoliō — “pillage, ruin, spoil”
  2. derived from espoillier
  3. inherited from spoilen
  4. prefixed as unspoil — “un + spoil”

Definitions

  1. 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. […]
    • 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.
    • As John grew into a toddler he was quite spoilt, so I took the serious responsibility of unspoiling him.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unspoil. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA