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1. The process of becoming spoiled
   - spoilage
    
2. The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
   "her spoiling my dress was deliberate";
   - spoil, spoilage

1. 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]
    
2. Become unfit for consumption or use
   "the meat must be eaten before it spoils";
   - go bad
    
3. Alter from the original to become worse or broken
   - corrupt
    
4. Treat with excessive indulgence
   "grandparents often spoil the children";
   - pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker [rare], baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge, nanny [informal]
    
5. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   "spoil your opponent";
   - thwart, queer [informal], scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk [informal], scupper [informal]
    
6. Have a strong desire or urge to do something
   "He is spoiling for a fight";
   - itch [informal]
    
7. Destroy and strip of its possession
   "The soldiers spoilt the beautiful country";
   - rape, despoil, violate, plunder
    
8. Make imperfect
   "nothing spoilt her beauty";
   - mar, impair, deflower, vitiate, pollute

Derived forms: spoilings

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

Encyclopedia: Spoiling