Thesaurus:spoil
English
Verb
Sense: to upset or make a mess of something; to put into disarray; to adversely alter
Synonyms
- crab (slang)
- ball up (dated, slang)
- blight
- botch
- bugger up (vulgar, UK & Commonwealth)
- bungle
- dirty [⇒ thesaurus]
- undo (literary)
- disrupt
- disturb
- fuck up (vulgar)
- jack up (vulgar)
- mar
- mess up
- mishandle
- mommick (US, dialect)
- pollute
- put a crimp in
- queer (dated, slang)
- ruin
- screw up (vulgar)
- sour [⇒ thesaurus]
- spoil
- stain
- upset [⇒ thesaurus]
- turn upside down (idiomatic)
- upset the applecart (idiomatic)
- vitiate
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Further reading
- “706. hindrance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “spoil” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.