Object

• broth: OLD DOG NEW TRICK Do too many cooks spoil the broth?

• enjoyment: But that doesn't spoil the enjoyment of reading it.

• surprise: Some examples are detailed below; let's not go into them here, it would only spoil the surprise.

Converse of object

• dredge: The remainder is made up of construction and demolition wastes, mining and agricultural wastes, sewage sludge and dredged spoils.

• excavate: During construction, a railroad was laid on the dock floor that allowed engines to remove wagons loaded with excavated spoil.

• divide: There is simply no point in dividing the spoils among a select few whilst hoping that a few billion onlookers will not notice.

• stack: Concentrated on enlarging working area at bottom and making space to stack spoil in not enough people to remove totally.

Modifies a noun

• heap: Not a lot to see - some old walls; numerous shallow pits; spoil heaps.

• dump: A steep slope was created from the spoil dump at the bottom of Pewter Pot to the current pool surface.

• tip: The red spoil tips were left behind by the shale oil industry.

Noun used with modifier

• colliery: Effects of the cessation of colliery spoil dumping on coastal processes.

• dredge: Even so, production of sewage sludges, dredge spoils, mining tailings and exhaust gases are unlikely to fall significantly.

• quarry: Terrestrial habitat associated with the breeding areas is quarry spoil, early successional vegetation and surrounding pasture.

• mining: We now faced one of my favorite off-road sections, this being the fast meandering track through the mining spoil heaps.

Preposition: of

• war: Does he grow rich on the spoils of war?