Spoil Synonyms and Antonyms

spoil
To ruin
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. destroy
  2. plunder
  3. bankrupt
  4. break down
  5. cross up
  6. demolish
  7. finish
  8. defile
  9. ruin
  10. shatter
  11. sink
  12. rape
  13. smash
  14. torpedo
  15. undo
  16. wash up
  17. despoil
  18. wrack
  19. wreck
  20. total
  21. violate
Antonyms:
  1. help
  2. enhance
To treat with indulgence and often overtender care
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. baby
  2. cosset
  3. coddle
  4. pamper
  5. indulge
  6. mollycoddle
  7. cater
  8. featherbed
  9. overindulge
  10. cocker
Antonyms:
  1. neglect
  2. be indifferent
  3. be strict with
  4. ignore
To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pillage
  2. plunder
  3. loot
  4. depredate
  5. corrupt
  6. booty
  7. ravage
  8. thwart
  9. sack
  10. prize
  11. despoil
  12. havoc
  13. addle
  14. adulterate
  15. alloy
  16. baby
  17. barbarize
  18. bastardize
  19. blemish
  20. blight
  21. coddle
  22. contaminate
  23. cosset
  24. crumble
  25. damage
  26. debase
  27. decay
  28. ransack
  29. decompose
  30. deface
  31. defile
  32. degrade
  33. demoralize
  34. deprave
  35. rape
  36. despoildevastate
  37. destroy
  38. devalue
  39. disfigure
  40. foul
  41. queer
  42. gratify
  43. harm
  44. hurt
  45. impair
  46. indulge
  47. infect
  48. injure
  49. mar
  50. mollycoddle
  51. scotch
  52. mutilate
  53. spoliate
  54. overindulge
  55. pamper
  56. pander to
  57. perish
  58. pervert
  59. pickings
  60. strip
  61. pollute
  62. foil
  63. prostitute
  64. putrefy
  65. harrow
  66. putresce
  67. rob
  68. rot
  69. ruin
  70. smear
  71. cross
  72. soil
  73. sophisticate
  74. sour
  75. squash
  76. sully
  77. taint
  78. tarnish
  79. undo
  80. vitiate
  81. frustrate
  82. waste
  83. wreck
  84. baffle
  85. bilk
Goods or property seized unlawfully, especially by a victor in wartime.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. loot
  2. pillage
  3. plunder
  4. spoliation
  5. prize
  6. Used in plural: booty
  7. booty
  8. corruption
  9. decay
  10. devastation
  11. gain
  12. spoiling
  13. spoilation
  14. boodle
  15. rapine
  16. robbery
  17. sacking
  18. spoils
  19. despoilation
  20. trophy
  21. vitiation
  22. waste
  23. despoilment
  24. despoliation
  25. spoilage
The political appointments or jobs that are at the disposal of those in power.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Used in plural: patronage
  2. pork
To become unfit for use or consumption, as from decay. Used especially of perishables, such as food.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decay
To harm the character of (a child) by overindulgence or leniency.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pamper

Words Related to Spoil

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Spoil Sentence Examples

  • Oh, you only spoil things for me.

  • You're going to spoil me.

  • I don't want to spoil them - or anyone else to spoil them.

  • Roxanne had a set her cap for him and Adrienne had no intention of being the one to spoil her friends' plans.

  • Perhaps I spoil her, but really that seems the best plan.

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