Spoil vs Disrupt - What's the difference?
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(archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
(archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) IX:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VII:
*, I.2.4.vii:
(ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
* (Bible), (w) iii. 27
To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
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* 2011 , ‘What the Arab papers say’, The Economist , 5 Aug 2011:
To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
* 2003 , David Nicoll, The Guardian , letter:
To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
(Also in plural: spoils ) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
(uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging]]. [[tailings, Tailings.
To throw into confusion or disorder.
To interrupt or impede.
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In transitive terms the difference between spoil and disrupt
is that spoil is to reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time while disrupt is to interrupt or impede.As verbs the difference between spoil and disrupt
is that spoil is to strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour while disrupt is to throw into confusion or disorder.As a noun spoil
is (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.As an adjective disrupt is
torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.spoil
English
Verb
- All that herde hym wer amased and sayde: ys nott this he that spoylled them whych called on this name in Jerusalem?
- To do her dye (quoth Vna) were despight, / And shame t'auenge so weake an enimy; / But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.
- Roger, that rich Bishop of Salisbury,through grief ran mad, spoke and did he knew not what.
- Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil .
- No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man.
- Spiritual pride spoils many graces.
- "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. […]"
- ‘This is a great day for us. Let us not spoil it by saying the wrong thing, by promoting a culture of revenge, or by failing to treat the former president with respect.’
- Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil .
- Dr Jonathan Grant (Letters, April 22) feels the best way to show his disaffection with political parties over Iraq is to spoil his ballot paper.
Synonyms
* (ruin) damage, destroy, ruin * (coddle) coddle, indulge, mollycoddleNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* spoilerSee also
* spoilage * spoils of war * spoilsport * spoilt * too many cooks spoil the brothAnagrams
*disrupt
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Verb
(en verb)Ian Sample
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- The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.