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Spoiling

noun

1.

The process of becoming spoiled. Synonym: spoilage.

2.

The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it. Synonyms: spoil, spoilage.

Spoil

verb

(past & past part. spoilt or spoiled; pres. part. spoiling)

1.

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

2.

Become unfit for consumption or use. Synonym: go bad.

3.

Alter from the original. Synonym: corrupt.

4.

Treat with excessive indulgence. Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper. "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

5.

Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of. Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart. "Foil your opponent"

6.

Have a strong desire or urge to do something. Synonym: itch. "He is spoiling for a fight"

7.

Destroy and strip of its possession. Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate.

8.

Make imperfect. Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate.

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"Spoiling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Coll. Dub.) will see that it is impossible to adopt his kind suggestion without spoiling the uniformity of the work. We have a bound copy of our First Volume now before us, and can assure him that, although the margin is necessarily narrow the book has not ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 • Various

... told you everything, and I think you will own that I am having a good time. I hope all this pleasure is not spoiling me, but I think of you all as much as ever, and especially of my Hatty. Are you very dull without me, dear? And how do you sleep? Write and tell me everything—how mother looks, and what Tom said in his ...

— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... seeketh such to worship Him.' Why put the emphasis upon the 'such,' as if it was a definition of the only kind of acceptable worship? It is that. But we might put more emphasis upon the 'seeketh' without spoiling the logic of the sentence; and thereby we should come nearer the truth of what God's heart to us is, so that if we do seek Him, we shall surely find. In this region, and in this region only, there is no search that is vain, there is no effort that is foiled, there is no desire unaccomplished, ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... where in a lake lived a monster Turtle which had destroyed many people by dragging them beneath the water. Naye{COMBINING BREVE}nayezgani went into the village and asked for food, but the people refused him, not knowing who he was. In the night he sent worms into their corn, spoiling it all; and in the morning, when they discovered it, they were filled with fear, ...

— The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis

... cans bulge at both ends after they have been completely cooled, it indicates that they are spoiling and developing gas, due to bacteria spores or chemical action. These may be saved if opened at once and resealed or resoldered and processed again ...

— Every Step in Canning • Grace Viall Gray

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