Spoil
Meaning
Diminish or destroy the value or quality of.
Pronunciation
UK spɔɪl
US spɔɪl
Example Sentences
- When the Romans conquered Greece, the cheesecake recipe was just one spoil of war.
- Keep a running inventory on the fridge door, because leftovers spoil less from age than from being forgotten behind a jar of pickles.
- Those by-products lower the pH enough to make the food inhospitable to the microbes that would otherwise spoil it.
Learn Spoil in Context
How to Build a Week of Meals From LeftoversThe saddest thing in most refrigerators is not mould; It is half a roast chicken that nobody has the imagination to rescue. Cooking from leftovers is less about thrift than about strategy, and the str...Read story 
Why Some Cuisines Rely Heavily on FermentationLong before anyone owned a refrigerator, cooks discovered that the surest way to save food from rotting was to let it rot on purpose, carefully. That paradox explains why fermentation sits at the hear...Read story
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