Overview of noun spoiling

The noun spoiling has 2 senses

• spoilage, spoiling -- (the process of becoming spoiled)


• spoil, spoiling, spoilage -- (the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate")

Overview of verb spoil

The verb spoil has 8 senses

• botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up -- (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")


• spoil, go bad -- (become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils")


• corrupt, spoil -- (alter from the original)


• pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge -- (treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!")


• thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk -- (hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent")


• itch, spoil -- (have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight")


• rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder -- (destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country")


• mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate -- (make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty")