All spoil synonyms
spoil
S s verb spoil
- force β physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- garotting β to execute by the garrote.
- disenable β to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
- defeat β If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
- winging β either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- bungle β If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
- braise β When you braise meat or a vegetable, you fry it quickly and then cook it slowly in a covered dish with a small amount of liquid.
- cheapen β If something cheapens a person or thing, it lowers their reputation or position.
- muddy the waters β If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
- creamed β the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- lambing β a young sheep.
- depopulate β To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- hosing β an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.
- adulterate β If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- counterplot β a plot designed to frustrate another plot
- dust off β earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- dash β If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- disintegrate β to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- go bad β not good in any manner or degree.
- messing β a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- ill-treat β to treat badly; maltreat; abuse.
- harm β a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- misemploy β to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- forayed β a quick, sudden attack: The defenders made a foray outside the walls.
- botch β If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
- debilitate β If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- mollycoddle β a man or boy who is used to being coddled; a milksop.
- lay waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- humored β a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- devilled β Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- mildewed β Plant Pathology. a disease of plants, characterized by a cottony, usually whitish coating on the surface of affected parts, caused by any of various fungi.
- waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- disenchant β to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- muck up β a bungled or disordered situation; foul-up.
- desecrate β If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it.
- misshape β to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- flawed β characterized by flaws; having imperfections: a flawed gem; a seriously flawed piece of work.
- deface β If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- butcher β A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- fluffed β Simple past tense and past participle of fluff.
- beggared β a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- disenchanting β Present participle of disenchant.
- curdling β Present participle of curdle.