Difference between Spoil and Pamper

What is the difference between Spoil and Pamper?

Spoil as a verb is to strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil. while Pamper as a verb is to treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence

Spoil

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil. To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. 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. Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

Example sentence: All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Pamper

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgenceto feed luxuriously

We hope you now know whether to use Spoil or Pamper in your sentence.

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