echar a perder — meaning in English
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English meaning
- spoil verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.
Senses
echar a perder is used for these senses in English:
- mess up (transitive) To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- spoil (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable. [from 16th c.]
- spoil (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.]
spoil — full definition
- verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.
- verb To indulge someone, especially a child, so much that it damages their character.
- verb (of food) To go bad.
- noun Plunder or loot taken by force, often in the phrase "the spoils of war."