Definition of Spoil

Verb: spoil (spoilt, also spoiled) spoy(-u)l

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
"I spoilt the dinner and we had to eat out";
- botch, bodge [Brit], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub [N. Amer], screw up, ball up, muck up, bungle, fluff, bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, butcher, goof up, balls up, cock up [Brit]
Become unfit for consumption or use
"the meat must be eaten before it spoils";
- go bad
Alter from the original to become worse or broken
- corrupt
Treat with excessive indulgence
"grandparents often spoil the children";
- pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge
Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"spoil your opponent";
- thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
Have a strong desire or urge to do something
"He is spoiling for a fight";
- itch
Destroy and strip of its possession
"The soldiers spoilt the beautiful country";
- rape, despoil, violate, plunder
Make imperfect
"nothing spoilt her beauty";
- mar, impair, deflower, vitiate, pollute

Noun: spoil spoy(-u)l

(usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
"to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
- spoiling, spoilage
The act of stripping and taking by force
- spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation