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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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... lived through, the need for a readjustment of his position with regard to her had come to him forcibly. The memory of the night when weakness and he had been at perilously close quarters had returned to him persistently and uncomfortably, spoiling the remembrance of his triumph. It had been well enough to smother the thought of that night in days of work. But had the ignoring of it blotted out the weakness? Had it not rather thrown it into bolder relief? ...

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... a heap of useless lead around the horizon. I reckon Cousin Ned's my meat. Y'u see, I get him in the flapper without spoiling him complete." And at the word he flung the rifle to his shoulder and fired with no ...

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