SPOIL
Definition:
- [noun] (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war); "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
- [noun] the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
Synonyms: ing, age
- [noun] the act of stripping and taking by force
Synonyms: spoliation, ation, deation, dement, despoliation
- [verb] make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Synonyms: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
- [verb] become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
Synonyms: go bad
- [verb] alter from the original
Synonyms: corrupt
- [verb] treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
Synonyms: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge
- [verb] hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
Synonyms: thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
- [verb] have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
Synonyms: itch
- [verb] destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
Synonyms: rape, deviolate, plunder
- [verb] make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
Synonyms: mar, impair, deflower, vitiate
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Related Words:
- addle
- curdle
- adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
- disappoint, let down
- dash
- short-circuit
- ruin
- defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud
- deface, disfigure, blemish
