spoil
1. (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
• Usage Domain:
plural, plural form
• Hypernyms:
stolen property
2. the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
- her spoiling my dress was deliberate
• Syn:
spoiling, spoilage
• Derivationally related forms:
spoil (for: spoilage), spoil (for: spoiling)
• Hypernyms:
injury
3. the act of stripping and taking by force
• Syn:
spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
• Derivationally related forms:
despoil (for: despoliation), despoil (for: despoilment), spoil (for: spoilation), spoil (for: spoliation)
• Hypernyms:
plundering, pillage, pillaging
1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin (Freq. 2)
- I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
- the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
• Syn:
botch, bodge, 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
• Derivationally related forms:
fuckup (for: fuck up), mess-up (for: mess up), foul-up (for: foul up), fluff (for: fluff), bungle (for: bungle), bungler (for: bungle), spoilage, spoiling, ballup (for: ball up), screwup (for: screw up), flub (for: flub), fumbler (for: fumble), bumbler (for: bumble), botcher (for: botch), botch (for: botch)
• Hypernyms:
fail, go wrong, miscarry
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
2. become unfit for consumption or use (Freq. 1)
- the meat must be eaten before it spoils
• Syn:
go bad
• Derivationally related forms:
spoilage, spoiling
• Hypernyms:
decay
• Hyponyms:
addle, curdle
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. alter from the original (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
corrupt
• Derivationally related forms:
spoliation
• Hypernyms:
modify
• Hyponyms:
load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. make imperfect
- nothing marred her beauty
• Syn:
mar, impair, deflower, vitiate
• Derivationally related forms:
defloration (for: deflower), impairment (for: impair), impairer (for: impair), mar (for: mar)
• Hypernyms:
damage
• Hyponyms:
defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud,
deface, disfigure, blemish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
5. treat with excessive indulgence
- grandparents often pamper the children
- Let's not mollycoddle our students!
• Syn:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby,
coddle, mollycoddle, indulge
• Derivationally related forms:
indulging (for: indulge), indulgence (for: indulge), spoiler, mollycoddler (for: mollycoddle), mollycoddle (for: mollycoddle), coddler (for: coddle), baby (for: baby), pamperer (for: pamper), pampering (for: pamper)
• Hypernyms:
treat, handle, do by
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
6. destroy and strip of its possession
- The soldiers raped the beautiful country
• Syn:
rape, despoil, violate, plunder
• Derivationally related forms:
plundering (for: plunder), despoilment (for: despoil), despoliation (for: despoil), spoliation, spoilation, rape (for: rape)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, ruin
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
7. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
- foil your opponent
• Syn:
thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross,
frustrate, baffle, bilk
• See Also:
double cross (for: cross)
• Derivationally related forms:
frustrative (for: frustrate), frustration (for: frustrate), cross (for: cross), foiling (for: foil), thwarter (for: thwart), thwarting (for: thwart)
• Hypernyms:
prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
• Hyponyms:
disappoint, let down, dash, short-circuit, ruin
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
8. have a strong desire or urge to do something
- She is itching to start the project
- He is spoiling for a fight
• Syn:
itch
• Derivationally related forms:
itch (for: itch)
• Hypernyms:
desire, want
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
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