1. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
   "a spoiled child";
   - spoilt
    
2. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
   "spoiled meat";
   - bad, spoilt

1. Badly mishandle or ruin something
   "I spoilt the dinner and we had to eat out";
   - botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up [informal], muff [informal], blow [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], muck up [informal], bungle, fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up [informal], mess up, butcher, balls up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], goof up [informal], make a hash of [informal]
    
2. Alter from the original to become worse or broken
   "Humidity spoiled the painting"; "The file was spoilt during transfer";
   - corrupt
    
3. Become unfit for consumption or use
   "the meat must be eaten before it spoils";
   - go bad, go off
    
4. Treat with excessive indulgence
   "grandparents often spoil the children";
   - pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker [rare], baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge, overindulge, nanny [informal]
    
5. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   "the news might spoil our plans for the weekend";
   - thwart, queer [informal], scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk [informal], scupper [informal]
    
6. Make imperfect
   "nothing spoilt her beauty";
   - mar, impair, deflower, vitiate, pollute
    
7. Have a strong desire or urge to do something
   "He is spoiling for a fight";
   - itch [informal]
    
8. [archaic] Rob or strip (a place) of its contents or resources destructively
   "The soldiers spoilt the beautiful country";
   - rape [archaic], despoil, plunder

See also: double-cross, ill-natured, stale

Type of: damage, decay, desire, destroy, do by [Brit], fail, forbid, foreclose, forestall, go wrong, handle, miscarry, modify, preclude, prevent, ruin, treat, want

Encyclopedia: Spoiled