Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of spoiling
- too much coddling will spoil the child
begriming, besmearing, besmirching, blackening, blurring, clouding, dirtying, discoloring, polluting, smearing, smirching, smudging, smutting, soiling, sullying, tarring
abasing, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, lowering, shaming, sinking
bastardizing, corrupting, debauching, demoralizing, depraving, perverting, subverting
- the meat has spoiled
breaking down, corrupting, decaying, decomposing, disintegrating, festering, fouling, moldering, molding, perishing [chiefly British], putrefying, rotting
- know when to stop, for an unnecessary brushstroke can spoil a painted portrait
deteriorating, enervating, enfeebling, undermining, weakening
eroding, scouring, washing out, wearing (away)
botching, gumming (up), queering
disabling, hamstringing, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, tormenting, torturing
annihilating, banging up, bashing, battering, clobbering, crushing, dashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, scourging, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling (or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wrecking
- when they were newlyweds, the wife tended to spoil her husband, but she soon got over that
Learn More about spoiling
-
Nglish: Translation of spoiling for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of spoiling for Arabic speakers
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up spoiling? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
