Spoil

Definition: Spoil

Spoil

Noun

1. (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war); "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy".

2. The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate".

3. The act of stripping and taking by force.

Verb

1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.

2. Become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils".

3. Alter from the original.

4. Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!".

5. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent".

6. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.

7. Make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spoil" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Environment

Military

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Spoil

Booty

Noun: booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag, pickings; spolia opima, prey; blackmail; stolen goods.

Deterioration

Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage.

Hindrance

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Lenity

Indulge, allow one to have his own way, spoil.

Opposition

Emulate; (compete); rival, spoil one's trade.

Satiety

Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil.

Stealing

Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.

Crosswords: Spoil

Did I screw up your righteous anger riff? Does the nest of tumors liquefying my brain kinda spoil the fun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Danny, don't spoil it (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey)

Don't let's spoil everything, we've only just met. (Blowup; writing credit: Julio Cortázar; Michelangelo Antonioni)

You spoil me girl (Cry For You; performing artist: Jodeci)

You're gonna spoil a dream we share (Please Don't Go; performing artist: No Mercy)

I could spoil you with time; you got everything else (Daydreamin'; performing artist: Tatyana Ali)

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 75 Ways to Spoil Your Grandchild (reference)

• Does God Want to Spoil My Fun? (reference)

• Too Many Spies Spoil the Case (reference)

• 101 Ways to Spoil Your Husband (reference)

• 116 Ways to Spoil Your Dog (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Will Failure Spoil Down MF? (reference)

• Don't Spoil the Tension [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Burnt and jagged stumps spoil the view of Mount Hood, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Too many cooks do not spoil the broth, Rainbow Room kitchen, Sept. 24, 1934. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I will not spoil her happiness

Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee, Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.

And the canned pears do not spoil.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Georgia

While approximately 30% of the Georgian economy is agricultural, crops spoil in the field because farmers either cannot get their produce to market or must pay costs that drive market prices above those for imported goods. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Fervent to spoil

Making speed to the spoil

Expressions using "spoil": spare the rod spoil the child ♦ spoil bank ♦ spoil for ♦ spoil one's aim ♦ spoil one's appetite ♦ spoil one's trade ♦ spoil smb. of his inheritance ♦ spoil smb. rotten ♦ spoil smb.'s appetite ♦ spoil system ♦ spoil the effect ♦ spoil the egyptians ♦ spoil the evening for smb. ♦ spoil things ♦ spoil utterly. Additional references.

Beginning with "spoil": spoil-five, spoil-heaps, spoil-sport, spoil-sports, spoil-tips.

Afrikaans

bederf (bribe, corruption, damage, decay, depravation, go bad, injure, putrefy, rot, taint). (various references)

Albanian

zhvat (bleed, cadge, claw back, coax, devour, extort, filch, fleece, hog, Rob, squeeze, Winkle, worm, wrest), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), pre (booty, chase, loot, prey, quarry, ravin, swag, victim), plaçkë (belongings, chattel, clobber, cloth, loot, plunder, quarry, stuff, swag, things, trap), kalbem (become rotten, decay, decompose, go bad, perish, putrefy, rot), fitim (benefit, earnings, gain, gainings, income, makings, payoff, percentage, profit, return, salary, victory, wages), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, vitiate, wrench), çoj dëm (idle away, lose). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غنائم, ‏دلل (cherish, cocker, coddle, cosset, dandle, fondle, indulge, molly-coddle, mother, pamper, pet, spoon feed), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), ‏أنقاض (debris, rubbish, rubble, scrap), ‏خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, waste, wreck), ‏خسائر (casualties, damages, havoc, losses), ‏سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rifle, rob, robbery, sack, skin, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), ‏بدد (burn, dally, dawdle, devour, disperse, dissipate, fool, fritter, melt, resolve, scatter, slattern, spend, squander, throwaway, waste), ‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏فوائد (avails, interest), ‏غنيمة (booty, capture, haul, loot, plunder, prey, prize, swag, take, trophy), ‏قام بأعمال السلب, ‏نهب (despoilment, flay, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, raid, ransack, rapine, ravage, rifle, rip off, robbery, sack, sacking, spoliation, stole, strip), ‏نفايات (dumps, litter, offal, refuse, shoddy, tailings), ‏مكاسب (gainings), ‏كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, distress, disturb, embitter, make turbid, muddiness, muddle, muddy, offend, roil, ruffle, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), ‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoilt), ‏تعطل (breakdown, conk, fall due on, give out, heave to, idleness, inactivity, jam, pack, paralysis). (various references)

Basque

zikindu (spoil to, spot to, stain to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

силно желая (die, lust), развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, uglify, undo, vitiate), грабя (depredate, despoil, pirate, plunder, ravage, reave, reive, sack), глезя (cosher, cosset, dandle, humor, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, pet, slop over), осуетявам (abort, baffle, disappoint, foil, frustrate, mock, pour cold water on, scatter, scotch, short circuit, sink, wash out), откраднати неща, нещо сбъркано при изработването, пребивам (beat up, do in), похабявам (blunt, consume, injure, waste), повреждам (blemish, damage, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maim, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, strafe, trouble, vitiate), печалба (catch, earnings, gain, income, increase, increment, lucre, plunder, plus, prize, profit, win, yield), плячкосвам (despoil, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, ravish, rifle, sack), плячка (booty, fish, haul, kill, loot, pillage, plunderage, prey, prize, quarry, ravin, spoils, swag, trophy), изгода (account, advantage, convenience, gain, interest, lucre, plunder, profit), доходни служби. (various references)

Chinese 

蹧 (to waste), 糟 (dregs, to waste), 掠夺物, 殘 (cruel, destroy, disabled, incomplete, injure, oppressive, ruin, savage), 弄糟 , 寵壞 . (various references)

Czech

znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, take out, wreck), zkazit (make a hash of, poison, pull down, unsettle), vyloupit (burgle), rozmazlit (coddle, pamper), plenìní (sack), obrat (conversion, ply, return, reverse, rifle, strip, trim, turn, turnover, veer), narušit (blemish, corrupt, dislocate, disrupt, erode, impair), lup (haul, loot, swag), kořist (booty, haul, loot, plunder, prey, quarry, trophy). (various references)

Danish

beskadige (damage, injure). (various references)

Dutch

bederven (bribe, damage, go bad, injure, putrefy, rot), havenen (damage, injure), beschadigen (damage, injure). (various references)

Esperanto

trodorloti, malbonigi, fuŝi (botch, bungle, screw up), difekti (damage, injure). (various references)

Faeroese

spilla (coddle, damage, destroy, injure, pamper, pet, quash), oyðileggja (damage, injure), klombra (botch, bungle, screw up), fesja (botch, bungle, screw up), bongla (botch, bungle, screw up). (various references)

Farsi 

یغما (Booty, Despoliation, Pillage, Plunder, Ravage, Sack), فساد (Corruption, Decadence, Decay, Degeneration, Depravity, Immorality, Pus, Putrefaction, Turpitude, Vice), فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Canker, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Rot, Ruin, Taint, Vitiate), فاسدشدن (Canker, Decay, Degenerate, Gangrene, Putrefy, Vitiate), پوسیده شدن , لوس کردن , غنیمت (Plunder, Prize), غارت کردن (Gut, Harrow, Harry, Maraud, Pillage, Plunder, Ransack, Ravage, Raven, Reave, Spoliate), تاراج (Booty, Loot, Pillage, Plunder), تباهی (Decay, Degeneration, Depravity, Destruction, Ruin, Ruination), سودباداورده , ضایع کردن (Abuse, Undo), ازبین بردن (Annihilate, Liquidate, Obviation, Raise, Washout), رودادن . (various references)

Finnish

pilata (damage, injure, mar, ruin). (various references)

French

gâter, gâcher, déblais, abîmer. (various references)

Frisian

skansearje (damage, injure), bedjerre. (various references)

German

verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, bane, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, debauch, deprave, destroy, disaster, doom, go bad, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruin, ruination, ruining, spoiling, spoilt, taint, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck), beschädigen (blemish, bruise, chip, damage, deface, injure, knock about, knock around, Mar, Mark, maul, nip, spoilt, strip, to damage, to injure). (various references)

Greek 

κακομαθαίνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

להתקלקל (deteriorate, go bad, go to the dogs, go wrong, perish), בזה (booty, hereby, herein, herewith, plunder, rapine, robbery, spoliation, therein), גזל (loot, plunder, robbery), גזלה (abduction, accroachment, plunder, robbery), שלל (booty, gain, haul, loot, pillage, plunder, profit, take, trophy), לבזבז (dissipate, muddle, spend, squander, waste), בז (disdainful, loot, plunder, prey), להשחית (corrupt, damage, debase, debauch, deprave, destroy, mangle, pervert, vitiate), מלקוח (booty, loot, plunder, prey), לחרבן (cause failure), לפנק (baby, cherish, coddle, fondle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, pet, spoon feed), לפגום (blemish, cut notch, impair), לפגל (adulterate, denature, foul, pollute), לקלקל (blight, break down, bungle, foul up, louse, muff, vitiate), לשחת (destroy, hurt, kill, ruin, waste), לבזוז (loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, sack). (various references)

Hungarian

zsákmány (booty, catch, chase, filch, heist, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, quarry, salvage, takings), préda (booty, pillage, plunder, prey). (various references)

Icelandic

dekra. (various references)

Indonesian

pampasan, memanjakan (cosher, indulge, molly-coddle, pamper). (various references)

Italian

danneggiare (damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar), viziare (addle, pamper, ruin, to spoil, vitiate), sciupare (blow, damage, fritter, get damaged, Mar, ravage, waste), guastare (damage, derange, fail, Mar, ruin, taint, warp). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

殺 (butcher, diminish, kill, murder, reduce, slice off, split), スポーツ新聞 (fire-engine, spoils system, sponsor, sporting newspaper, sporty, spot, spot announcement, spot campaign, spot check, spot commercial, spot news, spotlight, syringe), ちゃんばら映画 (kiss, make a fuss of, pamper, samurai movie), だ捕 (a bit, be even, bicycle, calculating, capture, cheeky, child pickpocket, efficient, forgive a debt, make a fuss of, making something last, mismatched, nervy, pamper, seizure, shrewd, suffix for familiarperson, tiny, very small, weight-chain-pole weapon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さつ (butcher, counter for books, diminish, kill, murder, note, paper money, police, reduce, remain, slice off, split, stay, temple, volume), スポイル , ちゃほや (make a fuss of, pamper), ちやほや (make a fuss of, pamper). (various references)

Korean 

전리붐. (various references)

Manx

spooilley (booty, capture, despoil, despoliation, loot, pillage, plunder, plundering, prey, rape, ravage, ravaging, rob, sack, undo as scheme), orchal (jumble, litter), millit (blown, corrupted, defaced, ruined, spoiled, undone), milley (blemish, blemish as work, blur, blur as vision, botch, corrupt, corruption, debauch; marring, deflower, despoil, despoliation; thousand, disfigure, disfigurement, impair, impairment, mar, muff, murder, ruin, spoiling, tarnish), jannoo brock jeh (botch, bungle, fumble, mismanage, waste, waste food), craght (depredation, devastation, disaster, foray, loot, massacre, pillage, plunder, ruin, vandalism), craghey (depredate, filibuster, maraud, massacre, overrun, pillage, pirate, plunder, ravage, ravish, ruin, scoop), cragh (booty, capture, depredation, devastation, disaster, doom, foray, havoc, loot, plunder, prey, prize, ravishment, sack, scoop), caartey (card, carding, comb, combing, curry), babbaney (fondle, fuss, fuss as child, indulgence, pamper). (various references)

Occitan

tacar (spot, stain). (various references)

Pig Latin

oilspay.(various references)

Portuguese

estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mar, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up), deteriorar (damage, deteriorate, flaw, injure, mar, rot), arruinar (blight, break, crack, decay, demolish, depredate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, fling, injure, mar, mine, puncture, ravage, reave, reive, ruin, undo, unmake, waste). (various references)

Romanian

strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, taint, vitiate, wreck), sminti (deceive, delude, destroy, displace, distract, harm, hinder), se strica (addle, break up, corrupt, decay, deteriorate, fester, go bad, go phut, ret, retrogress, turn), se distruge (go to wreck), cârpi (botch, bungle, cobble, darn, mend, patch up, piece, repair, stitch up, vamp, vamp up), dragare, distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), descompleta, deranja (annoy, be in the way, bother, come amiss to smb., derange, disarrange, discomfort, discommode, discompose, dislocate, disorder, disturb, fidget, hinder, incommode, interrupt, intrude, intrude one's presence on smb., intrude upon, ruffle, trouble, tumble), deposeda (deprive, dispossess, disseise, expropriate, widow of), defecta (crap, damage, deteriorate), corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, debauch, deprave, empoison, infect, pervert, seduce, sophisticate, suborn, taint, vitiate), face de petrecanie (do), cocoli, omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, torment, torture), avaria (damage, deteriorate, impair, injure), avantaje (facility), altera (adulterate, alloy, alter, change, corrupt, counterfeit, deprave, distort, forge, taint), comoarã (duck, gem, hoard, knock out, love, mine, precious, riches, thesaurus, treasure, treasury, wealth), împãrţealã (allotment, division), masacra (butcher, massacre, murder, mutilate, slaughter), victimã (casualty, holocaust, prey, sacrifice, victim), pãgubi (harm, hurt, injure), pãta (attaint, blemish, cloud, foul, maculate, Mark, slop, smear, smirch, smut, soil, speckle, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully), pagubã (cost, detriment, disavantage, grievance, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, mischief, prejudice), prãda (despoil, flay, fleece, gut, knock off, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, ruin, sack), pradã (booty, capture, catch, haul, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, quarry, take), premiu (accolade, bonus, bounty, Garland, gratuity, premium, prize, purse, reward, stake), râzgâia (mollycoddle), rãpune (defeat, destroy, finish, grass), rãsfãţa (amuse, caress, Cocker, coddle, cosher, dandle, divert, fondle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, pet), trofeu (capture, trophy), ucide (assassinate, butcher, croak, destroy, execute, kill, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, smother, strangle, suffocate), jefui (burgle, flay, fleece, Harry, knock off, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, scathe). (various references)

Russian 

портить (boggle, contaminate, corrupt, do damage, mung, munge, queer, tamper, thrash, vitiate, waste, welk). (various references)

Scottish

spùinn (plunder, rob), spùill (plunder), cobhartach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upropastiti (blight, destroy, havoc, make a hash of cutting, muck up, muff, murder, ruin, screw up, vitiate, wrack), ukvariti (go bad), razmaziti (coddle, dote, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper), pokvariti (adulterate, blemish, corrupt, damage, deteriorate, gum up, mar, queer, sophisticate, strip, taint, tamper), pljačka (depredation, despoilment, hold up, job, loot, pillage, rapine, robbery), plen (booty, kill, plunder, prey, quarry, ravin, spoils, swag, trophy), kvariti se. (various references)

Spanish

mimar (canoodle, coax, coddle, cosset, fondle, humor, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, mother, pamper, pet, spoon feed, wait on), echar a perder (Mar), deteriorar (damage, decay, deteriorate, injure, wear), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck), despojo (dispossession, divestiture, divestment, spoliation), corromper (canker, corrupt, debauch, infect, pollute, rot), consentir (accede, accept, agree, assent, coddle, comply, consent, give in, indulge, pamper, pander to, permit). (various references)

Swedish

skämma bort (indulge, pet), rov (loot, prey, robbery), förstöra (bugger, butcher, crab, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, muff, perish, quash, rape, ruin, shatter, sink, undo, waste, wreck), byte (booty, change, exchange, kill, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, quarry, swap). (various references)

Thai

แย่งชิง (rapacious, scramble), เน่าเสีย, ทำให้เสียหาย (happen to, mar, ravage), การแย่งชิง (scramble), ตามใจจนเสียคน, ของที่แย่งชิงมา. (various references)

Turkish

kaçırmak (abduct, blow, chill, exude, flush, give off, hijack, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, pass up, put off, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, whisk), çalıntı mal (swag, thievery), avanta (cleanup, illicit gain, pickings, plunder, spoils), şımartmak (baby, coddle, cosher, cosset, dandle, feather bed, indulge, pamper, pet, spoonfeed), azdirmak (botch, bungle, screw up), berbat etmek (ball up, bitch, bitch up, botch, bring to ruin, bungle, cast a cloud on smth., cloud, crab, fluff, make nonsense of, mess things up, mess up, piss on smth., play the deuce with, ruin, screw up, vitiate), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), çürümek (become unsound, canker, decay, decline, decompose, fester, go bad, go off, languish, molder, moulder, perish, putrefy, ret, rot, sphacelate), ganimet (booty, capture, godsend, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, trophy), yağma malı, kazanç (acquirement, acquisition, avails, benefit, capital, convenience, credit, earnings, gain, gainings, grist, income, increment, make, melon, proceeds, profit, receipt, revenues, takings, winnings, yield), mahrum etmek (abridge, con smb. out of, debar, debar from, deny, deprive, detain, dispossess, divest, divest smb. of, lose, mulct, oust, shear, starve, stint), memuriyet (official duty, officialdom, officialism, service, spoils), nazlı alıştırmak (coddle, feather bed), tadını kaçırmak (dampen), yüz verip şımartmak, yağma (booty, despoilment, despoliation, foray, loot, looting, pelf, pillage, plunder, pour, rapine, razzia, sack, sacking, spoliation, swag), yağma etmek (foray, put to the sack, ransack, rifle, rip off, sack), dozunu kaçırmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

zaяalamak (pollute, ruin), zaяalam, haraplamak (break down), dymjykmak (go bad), ajatmak (ferment). (various references)

Ukrainian

трофеї (bag, booty), вигода (accommodation, account, advantage, avail, behoof, boot, capital, emolument, profit), мародерство (marauding, pillage, pillaging), зброя (armament, arms, panoply, war, weapon), псуватися (addle, change, corrupt, decay, go bad), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, vitiate, waste), пестити (brood, canoodle, caress, cherish, cosher, cosset, dandle, embosom, fondle, groom, nourish, nurse, nuzzle, pet, pettle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đất bùn nạo vét lên (spoilt). (various references)

Welsh

sbwylio, ysglyfaethu (plunder), ysglyfaeth (booty, carrion, filth, prey), ysbwylio, ysbeilio (plunder), ysbail (booty, plunder), diwyno (mar, soil, sully), difrodi (ravage, waste), difetha (destroy, waste), caffaeliad (acquisition, boon, prey), anurddo (blemish, disfigure, mar), anrheithio (destroy, plunder, prey), anrhaith (booty, destruction, herds, prey, wealth), andwyo (harm, ruin, undo). (various references)

Wolof

yàq. (various references)

consenescamus, consenui, deformata, deformati, deformes, fermenti, fermento, fermentum, infecta, infectum, spoliare, vitio. (various references)

espoillier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "spoil": spoilable, spoilage, spoilages, spoiled, spoiler, spoilers, spoiling, spoils, spoilsman, spoilsmen, spoilsport, spoilsports, spoilt. (additional references)

Words ending with "spoil": despoil. (additional references)

Words containing "spoil": despoiled, despoiler, despoilers, despoiling, despoilment, despoilments, despoils, unspoiled, unspoilt. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spoil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: espoir, Poil, Scoil, Scoli, skoal, sopi, spail, speil, spil, spiol, spion, spior, spoa, spoi, spoid, spoir, spoit, Sposi, Spotila, spoub, sproul, stoil, Svolik. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: polis.

-1 letter: lips, lisp, lops, oils, piso, pois, pols, silo, slip, slop, soil, soli.

-2 letters: lip, lis, lop, oil, ops, pis, poi, pol, psi, sip, sol, sop.

-3 letters: is, li, lo, op, os, pi, si, so.

+1 letter: oxlips, pilose, pilots, pilous, pistol, poilus, poleis, polies, polios, polish, spoils, spoilt.

+2 letters: apostil, cowslip, despoil, diploes, dipoles, epilogs, epsilon, lipoids, lipomas, milksop, nonslip, oilcups, pileous, pillows, pinoles, piolets, piously, pistole, pistols, plimsol, plosion, plosive, polices, pollist, poloist, pontils, poplins, prosily, pulsion, slipout, sloping, soapily, spoiled, spoiler, spotlit, topsail, topsoil, upboils, upcoils, upsilon.