Definition of spoil

"spoil" in the noun sense

1. spoil

usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war

"to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"

2. spoil, spoiling, spoilage

the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it

"her spoiling my dress was deliberate"

3. spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation

the act of stripping and taking by force

"spoil" in the verb sense

1. 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"

2. spoil, go bad

become unfit for consumption or use

"the meat must be eaten before it spoils"

3. corrupt, spoil

alter from the original

4. pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge

treat with excessive indulgence

"grandparents often pamper the children"

"Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

5. 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"

6. itch, spoil

have a strong desire or urge to do something

"She is itching to start the project"

"He is spoiling for a fight"

7. rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder

destroy and strip of its possession

"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

8. mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate

make imperfect

"nothing marred her beauty"

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Quotations for spoil

Too many cooks spoil the broth. [ Proverb ]

Spare the rod and spoil the child. [ Proverb ]

You must spoil before you spin well. [ Proverb ]

You spoil a good dish with ill sauce. [ Proverb ]

Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish. [ Proverb ]

Thoughts shut up want air.
And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. [ Edward Young ]

Rather spoil your joke than tine your friend. [ Proverb ]

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. [ William Shakespeare ]

The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. [ Ovid ]

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sickness will spoil the happiness of an emperor as well as mine. [ Proverb ]

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it. [ John Selden ]

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Always! that is a dreadful word. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavor to the dish; but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage. [ Smollett ]

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture. [ Plutarch ]

spoil in Scrabble®

The word spoil is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters spoil:

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spoil in Words With Friends™

The word spoil is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters spoil:

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Word Growth involving spoil

Shorter words in spoil

oil

Longer words containing spoil

despoil despoilation despoilations

despoil despoiled

despoil despoiler despoilers

despoil despoiling

despoil despoilment despoilments

despoil despoils

spoilable

spoilage spoilages

spoiled despoiled

spoiled unspoiled

spoiler despoiler despoilers

spoiler spoilers despoilers

spoiling despoiling

spoils despoils

spoils spoilsmonger spoilsmongered

spoils spoilsmonger spoilsmongerer spoilsmongerers

spoils spoilsmonger spoilsmongeries

spoils spoilsmonger spoilsmongering

spoils spoilsmonger spoilsmongers

spoils spoilsmonger spoilsmongery

spoils spoilsport spoilsports

spoilt unspoilt