spoil
verb
[ spɔɪl ]
• diminish or destroy the value or quality of.
• "I wouldn't want to spoil your fun"
Similar:
mar,
damage,
impair,
blemish,
disfigure,
blight,
flaw,
deface,
scar,
injure,
harm,
ruin,
destroy,
wreck,
be a blot on the landscape,
disfeature,
• harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent.
• "the last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas"
Similar:
overindulge,
pamper,
indulge,
mollycoddle,
cosset,
coddle,
baby,
spoon-feed,
wait on hand and foot,
cater to someone's every whim,
overparent,
kill with kindness,
nanny,
nursemaid,
dote on,
wrap in cotton wool,
feather-bed,
cocker,
Opposite:
neglect,
treat harshly,
be strict with,
• be extremely or aggressively eager for.
• "Cooper was spoiling for a fight"
Similar:
eager for,
itching for,
looking for,
keen to have,
raring for,
after,
bent on,
set on,
on the lookout for,
longing for,
• rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence.
• "the enemy entered into Hereford, spoiled and fired the city, and razed the walls to the ground"
spoil
noun
• goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place.
• "the looters carried their spoils away"
Similar:
booty,
loot,
stolen goods,
plunder,
ill-gotten gains,
haul,
pickings,
takings,
swag,
boodle,
benefits,
advantages,
perks,
perquisites,
appanages,
• waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation.
• "colliery spoil"
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.
