Synonyms for spoiling
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : spoil |
| Phonetic Transcription : spɔɪl |
Top 10 synonyms for spoiling Other synonyms for the word spoiling
- accommodate
- addle
- become tainted
- become useless
- blemish
- break down
- cater to
- coddle
- cosset
- crumble
- curdle
- damage
- debase
- decompose
- deface
- defile
- demolish
- depredate
- desecrate
- desolate
- despoil
- deteriorate
- disfigure
- disgrace
- disintegrate
- favor
- go bad
- go off
- humor
- injure
- kill with kindness
- make useless
- mess up
- mildew
- molder
- mollycoddle
- muck up
- oblige
- overindulge
- pamper
- pillage
- plunder
- prejudice
- putrefy
- ravage
- rot
- sack
- smash
- spoliate
- spoon-feed
- squash
- take apart
- trash
- turn
- vitiate
- waste
Définition of spoiling
Origin :- c.1300, from Old French espoillier "to strip, plunder," from Latin spoliare "to strip of clothing, rob," from spolium "armor stripped from an enemy, booty;" originally "skin stripped from a killed animal," from PIE *spol-yo-, perhaps from root *spel- "to split, to break off" (cf. Greek aspalon "skin, hide," spolas "flayed skin;" Lithuanian spaliai "shives of flax;" Old Church Slavonic rasplatiti "to cleave, split;" Middle Low German spalden, Old High German spaltan "to split;" Sanskrit sphatayati "splits").
- Sense of "to damage so as to render useless" is from 1560s; that of "to over-indulge" (a child, etc.) is from 1640s (implied in spoiled). Intransitive sense of "to go bad" is from 1690s. To be spoiling for (a fight, etc.) is from 1865, from notion that one will "spoil" if he doesn't get it. Spoil-sport attested from 1801.
- verb ruin, hurt
- verb baby, indulge
- verb decay, turn bad
- The result of the spore development is the spoiling of the food.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Perhaps I am spoiling the only chance I have to get any happiness out of life.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- I'm just spoiling for something to practice on, anyway—and he's such a beauty.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- These friends of yours were bent on spoiling a good man to make bad meat.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- You were all spoiling for a fight—and there did seem to be the makings of a beautiful row!
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- Then he began to dig about it carefully to keep from spoiling the honey.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- That little curé would be afraid of spoiling his little white hands!
- Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
- Then we must abstain from spoiling the dead or hindering their burial?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- You know, Caroline, that money and what it brought was spoiling Steve.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- But it would be a sin to allow it; it would be spoiling a saint to patch up a sinner.
- Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
Antonyms for spoiling
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