usually plural Valuables taken by violence (especially in war).

Roget 793: booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag [Slang], pickings; spolia opima [Lat.], prey; blackmail; stolen goods.   

Dutch: plundering, roofbuit
Polish: trofeum, zdobycz

The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it:
— Her spoiling my dress was deliberate.

synonyms: spoilage, spoiling.

Polish: psucie

The act of stripping and taking by force.

synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoilation, spoliation.

Dutch: plundering, vrijbuiterij, beroving

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.

synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up ... show more.

Roget 869: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut.   , gorge, surfeit; bore etc. (weary) 841; tire etc. (fatigue) 688; spoil.    have enough of, have quite enough of, have one's fill, have too much of; be satiated etc. adj.. ... show more

Dutch: bederven, hannesen, haspelen, infesteren, klunzen, krukken, mispeuteren, naar de knoppen helpen, stuntelen, verbroddelen, verbrodden, verbruien, vergallen, verhaspelen, verkankelemienen, verkankeren, verkloten, verknallen, verknoeien, verknollen, verpesten, verprutsen, versjteren, verstieren, verzieken ... show more

Become unfit for consumption or use:
— The meat must be eaten before it spoils.

synonym: go bad.

Dutch: bederven

Alter from the original.

synonym: corrupt.

Treat with excessive indulgence.

synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper.

Roget 740: be lenient etc. adj.; tolerate, bear with; parcere subjectis [Lat.], give quarter.    indulge, allow one to have his own way, spoil.   

Dutch: vertroetelen, verwennen

Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.

synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart.

Roget 706: hinder, impede, filibuster [U.S.], impedite^†, embarrass.    keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert^†; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck^†; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop [Law]; inhibit etc. 761; shackle etc. (restrain) 751; restrict.    obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay^†; dam up etc. (close) 261; put on the brake etc. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to etc. 142; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose etc. 708; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude^†.    interpose, interfere, intermeddle etc. 682.    cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.    run foul of, fall foul of; cross the path of, break in upon.    thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze^†, feeze [U.S.]; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat etc. 731; spike guns etc. (render useless) 645; spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple etc. (injure) 659; put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten etc. (dissuade) 616; discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.    ... show more

Dutch: afweren, dwarsbomen, frustreren, torpederen

Have a strong desire or urge to do something:
— He is spoiling for a fight.

synonym: itch.

Dutch: jeuk

Destroy and strip of its possession.

synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate.

Roget 791: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim^†, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.    convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize etc. (lay violent hands on) 789.    plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate^†, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer^†, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger [Slang]; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.    swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece; defraud etc. 545; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits.    rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul; set a thief to catch a thief.    disregard the distinction between meum and disregard the distinction between meum and tuum [Lat.].    [receive stolen goods] fence, launder, launder money.    ... show more

Dutch: verprutsen

Make imperfect.

synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate.

Dutch: bederven, ontluisteren, ontsieren