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1. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
   "a spoilt child";
   - spoiled
    
2. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
   "a refrigerator full of spoilt food";
   - bad, spoiled
    
3. Affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
   "a spoilt rose";
   - blighted

1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   "I spoilt the dinner and we had to eat out";
   - botch, bodge [Brit], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub [N. Amer], screw up, ball up, muck up, bungle, fluff, bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, butcher, goof up, balls up, cock up [Brit]
    
2. Become unfit for consumption or use
   "the meat must be eaten before it spoils";
   - go bad
    
3. Alter from the original to become worse or broken
   - corrupt
    
4. Treat with excessive indulgence
   "grandparents often spoil the children";
   - pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge
    
5. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   "spoil your opponent";
   - thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
    
6. Have a strong desire or urge to do something
   "He is spoiling for a fight";
   - itch
    
7. Destroy and strip of its possession
   "The soldiers spoilt the beautiful country";
   - rape, despoil, violate, plunder
    
8. Make imperfect
   "nothing spoilt her beauty";
   - mar, impair, deflower, vitiate, pollute

See also: destroyed, ill-natured, stale

Type of: damage, decay, desire, destroy, do by, fail, forbid, foreclose, forestall, go wrong, handle, miscarry, modify, preclude, prevent, ruin, spifflicate, spiflicate, treat, want

Encyclopedia: Spoil