spoil
To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
Example
“All this sun spoils me for vacations in the far North.”
Other meanings
To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.
“Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge; otherwise it will spoil.”
Synonyms
- blow
- screw up
- ball up
- louse up
- foul up
- mess up
Related words
- spoilability
- spoilable
- spoilee
- spoilful
- spoilsome
- unspoil
- spoiling for a fight
- Q-spoil
- spoilfive
- spoil someone rotten
- spoil-paper
- spoilsport
Word history
From Latin "spoliō" (spoliō, spoliāre).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “spoil” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.