Please and Spoil

Please

Please verb - To give satisfaction to.

Usage example: fresh flowers please me greatly

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Spoil and please are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spoil" instead a verb "Please".

Nearby Word: pleased

Spoil verb - To treat with great or excessive care.

Usage example: when they were newlyweds, the wife tended to spoil her husband, but she soon got over that

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Please and spoil are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Please" instead a verb "Spoil".

Nearby Words: spoiled, spoiling, spoilage, spoilt, spoiler

But she has a dark secret... between her natural desire to please her parents, and her strict mother's believing very strongly in "spare the rod, spoil the child" she's grown up to become quite the masochist.

Source: Manga / Portrait of M and N
Trailers Always Spoil: If you listen to the DVD commentary, Harve Bennett mentions that he really wanted the Enterprise getting blown up to be a total shock to the audience, so he asked the people cutting the trailer together to please, please omit it from the trailers.

Source: Film / Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Fargöth: "Arthéon, please make them stop fighting, whatever it entails." Do Not Spoil This Ending: The fourth novel has a major twist and has a longer gap between its release and that of the following season of the series than previous ones.

Source: Literature / Noob

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