spoil spoil/Submit verb verb: spoil; 3rd person present: spoils; past tense: spoilt; past participle: spoilt; past tense: spoiled; past participle: spoiled; gerund or present participle: spoiling 1. diminish or destroy the value or quality of. I wouldnt want to spoil your fun synonyms: mar, damage, impair, blemish, disfigure, blight, flaw, deface, scar, injure, harm; More antonyms: improve, enhance prevent someone from enjoying (an occasion or event). she was afraid of spoiling Christmas for the rest of the family synonyms: ruin, wreck, destroy, upset, undo, mess up, make a mess of, dash, sabotage, scotch, torpedo; More antonyms: further, help (of food) become unfit for eating. Ive got some ham thatll spoil if we dont eat it tonight synonyms: go bad, go off, go rancid, turn, go sour, go moldy, go rotten, rot, perish stockpiled food may spoil antonyms: keep 2. harm the character of (a child) by being too lenient or indulgent. the last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas synonyms: overindulge, pamper, indulge, mollycoddle, cosset, coddle, baby, wait on hand and foot, kill with kindness; nanny his sisters spoil him antonyms: neglect, be strict with treat with great or excessive kindness, consideration, or generosity. breakfast in bed—youre spoiling me! 3. be extremely or aggressively eager for. Cooper was spoiling for a fight synonyms: eager for, itching for, looking for, keen to have, after, bent on, longing for its obvious hes spoiling for a fight 4. archaic rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence. noun noun: spoil; plural noun: spoils 1. goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place. the looters carried their spoils away synonyms: booty, loot, stolen goods, plunder, ill-gotten gains, haul, pickings; More 2. waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation. Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): shortening of Old French espoille (noun), espoillier (verb), from Latin spoliare, from spolium ‘plunder, skin stripped from an animal,’ or a shortening of despoil
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