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Verb: spoil (spoilt, also spoiled) spoy(-u)l- Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
"I spoilt the dinner and we had to eat out"; - botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff [informal], blow, flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], muck up [informal], bungle, fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up, mess up, butcher, goof up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], balls up [informal], make a hash of [informal] - Become unfit for consumption or use
"the meat must be eaten before it spoils"; - go bad - Alter from the original to become worse or broken
- corrupt - Treat with excessive indulgence
"grandparents often spoil the children"; - pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker [rare], baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge, nanny [informal] - Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"spoil your opponent"; - thwart, queer [informal], scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk [informal], scupper [informal] - Have a strong desire or urge to do something
"He is spoiling for a fight"; - itch [informal] - Destroy and strip of its possession
"The soldiers spoilt the beautiful country"; - rape, despoil, violate, plunder - Make imperfect
"nothing spoilt her beauty"; - mar, impair, deflower, vitiate, pollute Noun: spoil spoy(-u)l- (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
"to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy" - The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
- spoiling, spoilage - The act of stripping and taking by force
- spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
Derived forms: spoils, spoilt, spoiling Type of: damage, decay, desire, destroy, do by, fail, forbid, foreclose, forestall, go wrong, handle, injury, miscarry, modify, pillage, pillaging, plundering, preclude, prevent, ruin, stolen property, treat, want Encyclopedia: Spoil |