1. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
   "a spoiled child"
   - spoilt 
2. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
   - bad, spoilt

1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   - 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, bugger, balls up 
2. Become unfit for consumption or use
   "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
   - go bad 
3. Alter from the original
   - corrupt 
4. Treat with excessive indulgence
   - pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge 
5. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   - thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk 
6. Have a strong desire or urge to do something
   "He is spoiling for a fight"
   - itch 
7. Destroy and strip of its possession
   - rape, despoil, violate, plunder 
8. Make imperfect
   - mar, impair, deflower, vitiate

See also: ill-natured, spoilage, spoiler, spoliation, stale

Type of: damage, decay, desire, destroy, do by, fail, forbid, foreclose, forestall, go wrong, handle, miscarry, modify, preclude, prevent, ruin, spifflicate, spiflicate, treat, want

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