spoil

spoil is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
2. transitive verb. To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
3. transitive verb. To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
4. transitive verb. To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
5. intransitive verb. To practice plunder or robbery.
6. intransitive verb. To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
7. noun. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
8. noun. Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.
9. noun. That which is gained by strength or effort.
10. noun. The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
11. noun. Corruption; cause of corruption.
12. noun. The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
13. noun. the act of stripping and taking by force

    Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoilation, spoliation

14. noun. the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it

    "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"

    Synonyms: spoilage, spoiling

15. noun. (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)

    "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"

16. verb. alter from the original

    Synonyms: corrupt

17. verb. become unfit for consumption or use

    "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"

18. verb. make imperfect

    "nothing marred her beauty"

    Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate

19. verb. destroy and strip of its possession

    "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

    Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate

20. verb. have a strong desire or urge to do something

    "She is itching to start the project"

    "He is spoiling for a fight"

    Synonyms: itch

21. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, fumble, mishandle

22. verb. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

    "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"

    "foil your opponent"

    Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart

23. verb. treat with excessive indulgence

    "grandparents often pamper the children"

    "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

    Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper

Synonyms

despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoilation, spoliation, spoilage, spoiling, corrupt, deflower, impair, mar, vitiate, despoil, plunder, rape, violate, itch, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spoil:

lipos, polis

Common word forms

spoils, spoiled, spoiler, spoilful, spoiling, spoilable, spoilless, spoilment

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