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Noun spoiling has 2 senses
- spoilage, spoiling - the process of becoming spoiled
--1 is a kind of decay
--1 has particulars: mildew, mold; souring
- spoil, spoiling, spoilage - the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
--2 is a kind of injury
Verb spoil has 8 senses
- botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
--1 is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- spoil, go bad - become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
--2 is one way to decay
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Something ----s
- corrupt, spoil - alter from the original
--3 is one way to modify
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- pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge - treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
--4 is one way to treat, handle, do by
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Somebody ----s somebody
- thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk - hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
--5 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- itch, spoil - have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
--6 is one way to desire, want
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Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder - destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
--7 is one way to destroy, ruin
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Somebody ----s something
- mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate - make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
--8 is one way to damage
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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