Upset vs Spoil - What's the difference?
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(of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
(countable, sports) An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.
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(automobile insurance) An overturn.
An stomach.
* 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life , volume 44, number 19, page 110 [http://books.google.com/books?id=vFMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA110&dq=pepto]:
(mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,?) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x?y, then y is in U.
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
To tip or overturn (something).
* 1924 , W. D. Ross translator, , Book 1, Part 9,
To defeat unexpectedly.
To be upset or knocked over.
(obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
* R. of Brunne
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
(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.
In uncountable terms the difference between upset and spoil
is that upset is disturbance or disruption while spoil is material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.In transitive terms the difference between upset and spoil
is that upset is to defeat unexpectedly while spoil is to reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.In intransitive terms the difference between upset and spoil
is that upset is to be upset or knocked over while spoil is of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.As an adjective upset
is angry, distressed, or unhappy.upset
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- His stomach was upset , so he didn't want to move.
Synonyms
* See'' angry, distressed ''and unhappy ** in a tizzyDerived terms
* upset priceNoun
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset .
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- "collision and upset ": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets . And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
Synonyms
* (sense) disruption, disturbance * (unexpected victory of a competitor)Verb
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset ; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
- ''Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- with sail on mast upset
Synonyms
* (make (a person) angry, distressed or unhappy''): ''See'' anger, distress ''and sadden * disrupt, disturb, turn upside down * (sense) invert, overturn, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside downDerived terms
* upset the applecart * upset the nativesspoil
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.
