devastate vs spoil

devastate

verb
  • To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest. 

  • To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions. 

  • To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay 

  • To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over. 

spoil

verb
  • To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. 

  • To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. 

  • To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time. 

  • To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it. 

  • Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. 

  • To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler. 

noun
  • Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else. 

  • Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. 

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