· make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

Synonym(s): 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

Hypernym(s): fail, go_wrong, miscarry

· become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"

Synonym(s): go_bad

Hypernym(s): decay

· alter from the original

Synonym(s): corrupt

Hypernym(s): modify

· treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

Synonym(s): pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge

Hypernym(s): treat, handle, do_by

· hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

Synonym(s): thwart, queer, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk

Hypernym(s): prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid

· have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"

Synonym(s): itch

Hypernym(s): desire, want

· destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

Synonym(s): rape, despoil, violate, plunder

Hypernym(s): destroy, ruin

· make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"

Synonym(s): mar, impair, deflower, vitiate

Hypernym(s): damage

· having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child"

Synonym(s): spoiled

· (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

Synonym(s): bad, spoiled

· affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"

Synonym(s): blighted