Thesaurus
spoil
Synonym Discussion of spoil
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- the spoils of political victory
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- a bootlegger's plunder
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- thieves dividing up their booty
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- the wartime right of seizing prizes at sea
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- picked through the ruins for loot
spoil
Synonyms and Antonyms of spoil
- too much coddling will spoil the child
- the meat has spoiled
sour, turn, turn off [British]
contaminate, defile, pollute, taint
crumble, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, dilapidate, sink, wither
fall apart, go to seed (or run to seed)
- know when to stop, for an unnecessary brushstroke can spoil a painted portrait
deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken
erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)
disable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture
annihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck
doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp
- when they were newlyweds, the wife tended to spoil her husband, but she soon got over that
Synonym Discussion of spoil
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- a decaying mansion
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- the strong odor of decomposing vegetation
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- fruit was left to rot in warehouses
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- corpses putrefying on the battlefield
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- keep the ham from spoiling
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