n.

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;
   spoiling, spoilage
   
   • her spoiling my dress was deliberate
3. the act of stripping and taking by force;
   spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation

v.

1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin;
   botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
   
   • I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
   • the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
2. become unfit for consumption or use;
   go bad
   
   • the meat must be eaten before it spoils
3. alter from the original;
   corrupt
4. treat with excessive indulgence;
   pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge
   
   • grandparents often pamper the children
   • Let's not mollycoddle our students!
5. hinder or prevent  (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
   thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
   
   • What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
   • foil your opponent
6. have a strong desire or urge to do something;
   itch
   
   • She is itching to start the project
   • He is spoiling for a fight
7. destroy and strip of its possession;
   rape, despoil, violate, plunder
   
   • The soldiers raped the beautiful country
8. make imperfect;
   mar, impair, deflower, vitiate
   
   • nothing marred her beauty