All spoil synonyms
spoil
S s verb spoil
- baby β A baby is a very young child, especially one that cannot yet walk or talk.
- infect β to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- encrust β Cover (something) with a hard surface layer.
- enthuse β Say something that expresses one's eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
- blemish β A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
- compromise β A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- hashed β Simple past tense and past participle of hash.
- lofting β a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- make waves β a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- beggaring β a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- fricassee β meat, especially chicken or veal, browned lightly, stewed, and served in a sauce made with its own stock.
- despoil β To despoil a place means to make it less attractive, valuable, or important by taking things away from it or by destroying it.
- whacking β large.
- favor β something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- honeycomb β a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- immobilise β to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- ferreting β a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- coddle β To coddle someone means to treat them too kindly or protect them too much.
- dump on β to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
- leave no stone unturned β the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- dirty β soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- mis-shaped β to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- mess up β a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- misconjecture β the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- deflower β to despoil of beauty, innocence, etc; mar; violate
- illuse β to treat badly, unjustly, cruelly, etc.
- cleaned out β free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- fricasseed β meat, especially chicken or veal, browned lightly, stewed, and served in a sauce made with its own stock.
- hashing β hash coding
- necked β having a neck of a kind specified (usually used in combination): a square-necked blouse.
- harrow β a borough of Greater London, in SE England.
- ill-use β to treat badly, unjustly, cruelly, etc.
- foraying β a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- defile β To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
- fluffing β light, downy particles, as of cotton.
- lamed β Slang. a person who is out of touch with modern fads or trends, especially one who is unsophisticated.
- contaminate β If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- weighting β the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- encrusted β Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- deform β If something deforms a person's body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms.
noun spoil
- curd β The thick white substance which is formed when milk turns sour can be referred to as curds.
- curdle β If milk or eggs curdle or if you curdle them, they separate into different bits.
- curds β Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- gold star β a gold-colored star displayed, as on a service flag, to indicate that a member of one's family, organization, or the like, was killed in war as a member of the armed forces.