What is the meaning of spoiling?

noun

• The process of becoming spoiled.
  • synonyms: spoilage
• The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it.
  • usage: "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
  • synonyms: spoil, spoilage

verb

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