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Defenition of the word spoil

    • Defenition of the word spoil

      • To hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
      • Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
      • make a mess of, destroy or ruin
      • alter from the original
      • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; thwart
      • make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
      • treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
      • (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war); "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
      • become unfit for consumption or use; "the meatt must be eaten before it spoils"
      • the act of spoiling
      • the act of stripping and taking by force
      • to hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge."
      • the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
      • become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
      • destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
      • have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
      • 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"
      • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth''s amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
      • treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let''s not mollycoddle our students!"
      • the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
      • (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
      • become unfit for consumption or use
      • make imperfect
      • destroy and strip of its possession
      • have a strong desire or urge to do something
      • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
      • treat with excessive indulgence

    Synonyms for the word spoil

      • baby
      • baffle
      • ball up
      • bilk
      • blow
      • blunder
      • bobble
      • bollix
      • bollix up
      • bollocks
      • bollocks up
      • botch
      • botch up
      • bungle
      • cocker
      • coddle
      • corrupt
      • cosset
      • cross
      • damage
      • deflower
      • despoilment
      • despoliation
      • featherbed
      • flub
      • fluff
      • foil
      • foul up
      • frustrate
      • fuck up
      • fumble
      • go bad
      • harm
      • impair
      • indulge
      • louse up
      • mar
      • mess up
      • mishandle
      • mollycoddle
      • muck up
      • muff
      • pamper
      • pillage
      • plunder
      • queer
      • rob
      • scotch
      • screw up
      • spoilage
      • spoilation
      • spoiling
      • spoliation
      • thwart
      • vitiate

    Similar words in the spoil

      • blunder out
      • blurt
      • blurt out
      • double cross
      • ejaculate

    Hyponyms for the word spoil

      • addle
      • adulterate
      • blemish
      • cloud
      • corrupt
      • curdle
      • dash
      • debase
      • deface
      • defile
      • dilute
      • disappoint
      • disfigure
      • let down
      • load
      • ruin
      • short-circuit
      • stretch
      • sully
      • taint

    Hypernyms for the word spoil

      • damage
      • decay
      • desire
      • destroy
      • discourage
      • do by
      • fail
      • forbid
      • foreclose
      • forestall
      • go wrong
      • handle
      • injury
      • miscarry
      • modify
      • pillage
      • pillaging
      • plundering
      • preclude
      • prevent
      • ruin
      • stolen property
      • treat
      • want

    Idioms for the word spoil

      • be spoiled in transit
      • spoil prices
      • spoil the market
      • to be spoiling for a fight
      • to be spoilt for choice
      • to be spoiled for choice

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