Synonyms of the word

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

baby

• n. A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
• n. Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such…
• n. Unborn young; a fetus.
• n. A person who is immature or infantile.
• n. Term of endearment for a girlfriend or boyfriend or spouse.
• n. (informal) A form of address to a man or a woman considered to be attractive.
• n. A pet project or responsibility.
• n. The lastborn of a family.
• n. An affectionate term for anything.
• n. (archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll.
• adj. Of a child: very young; of the age when he or she would be termed a baby or infant.
• adj. Of an animal: young.
• adj. Intended for babies.
• adj. (of vegetables, etc.) Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).
• v. (transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
• v. (transitive) To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.

baffle

• v. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
• v. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
• v. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
• v. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
• n. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is…
• n. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
• n. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

bilk

• n. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
• n. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
• v. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
• v. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

bobble

• n. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
• n. (Britain) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie.
• n. (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
• n. (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
• n. A wobbling motion.
• v. (intransitive) To bob up and down.
• v. (US) To make a mistake in.
• v. (intransitive) To roll slowly.

bodge

• v. (Britain) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
• v. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
• n. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
• n. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
• n. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
• adj. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

bollix

• v. (transitive) To confuse.
• v. (transitive) To botch or bungle.
• n. confusion.
• n. mess.

bollocks

• n. (Britain, vulgar) The testicles (sometimes used in the singular).
• n. (Britain, vulgar) Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.
• n. (Ireland, vulgar) An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.
• n. (Britain, vulgar) A contraction of the dog's bollocks.
• v. (transitive, Britain, taboo, slang) To break.
• v. (transitive, Britain, taboo, slang) (also bollocks up) To fail (a task); to make a mess of.
• interj. (Britain, taboo, slang) Expressing anger, frustration, etc.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bollock.

botch

• v. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something;…
• v. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
• v. To repair or mend clumsily.
• n. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
• n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
• n. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
• n. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
• n. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
• n. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
• n. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

bumble

• n. A confusion, jumble.
• v. To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
• n. A bumble-bee.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The bittern.
• v. (intransitive) To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

bungle

• n. A botched or incompetently handled situation.
• v. To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

cocker

• n. (dated) One who breeds gamecocks or arranges cockfights.
• n. (dated) One who hunts gamecocks.
• n. A rustic high shoe, half-boots.
• n. (Britain, informal) Friend, mate.
• v. To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).

coddle

• v. (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
• v. (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
• v. (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
• n. An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes…

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

cosset

• v. (transitive) To treat like a pet; to overly indulge.
• n. A pet; (especially) a pet lamb.
• n. Someone indulged or cosseted.

cross

• n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
• n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
• n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
• n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
• n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
• n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
• n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
• n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
• n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
• n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
• n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
• n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
• n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
• n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
• n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
• n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
• n. A line drawn across or through another line.
• n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
• n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
• n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
• adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
• adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
• adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
• adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
• adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
• prep. (archaic) across.
• prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• v. To make or form a cross.
• v. To move relatively.
• v. (social) To oppose.
• v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
• v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…

damage

• n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
• n. (slang) Cost or expense.
• v. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

decay

• n. The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
• n. A deterioration of condition.
• v. (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
• v. (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to…
• v. (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.

deflower

• v. (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

desire

• v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
• v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• v. To want emotionally or sexually.
• v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• v. To require; to demand; to claim.
• v. To miss; to regret.
• n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
• n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• n. (uncountable) Motivation.
• n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

despoil

• v. (transitive) To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.
• v. (transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
• v. (obsolete, transitive or reflexive) To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
• n. (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

despoilment

• n. The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.

despoliation

• n. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

fail

• v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
• v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
• v. (transitive) To neglect.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
• v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
• v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
• v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
• v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
• v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
• v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
• v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
• v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
• v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
• v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
• n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
• n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
• n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
• n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
• n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
• adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
• n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

featherbed

• n. A mattress stuffed with feathers.
• v. (transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.

flub

• n. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
• v. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

fluff

• n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
• n. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
• n. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
• n. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
• n. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
• n. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
• v. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
• v. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines.
• v. (transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
• v. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
• v. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.

foil

• n. A very thin sheet of metal.
• n. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
• n. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
• n. (figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the…
• n. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
• n. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip.
• n. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation…
• n. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
• n. Shortened form of hydrofoil.
• n. Shortened form of aerofoil/airfoil.
• v. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
• v. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
• v. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
• v. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
• n. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
• n. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
• n. (hunting) The track of an animal.
• v. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
• v. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

foreclose

• v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
• v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
• v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
• v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

frustrate

• v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
• v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
• v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
• adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

fumble

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To idly touch or nervously handle.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something.
• v. (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
• v. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc.
• v. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
• n. (sports) A ball etc. that has been dropped.

handle

• n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
• n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
• n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
• n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
• n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
• n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
• n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
• n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
• n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
• v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
• v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
• v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
• v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
• v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
• v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

impair

• v. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
• adj. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate.

indulge

• v. (intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
• v. To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.
• v. To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
• v. To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

injury

• n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
• n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
• n. (archaic) injustice.
• v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

itch

• n. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
• n. A desire or want.
• v. (intransitive) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
• v. (intransitive) To want or desire.
• v. (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

mar

• v. To spoil, to damage.
• n. A blemish.
• n. A small lake.

miscarry

• v. (obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
• v. (now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong.
• v. To have a miscarriage; to abort a foetus, usually without intent to do so.
• v. To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
• v. Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.

mishandle

• v. To handle badly, causing physical injury.
• v. To handle incorrectly; to make a mistake in handling a thing or situation.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

mollycoddle

• n. (now rare) A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
• v. (transitive) To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.

muff

• n. (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
• n. (slang) Female pubic hair; the vulva.
• n. (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
• n. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
• n. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
• n. (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
• n. (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
• n. A bird, the whitethroat.
• v. (sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
• v. To mishandle; to bungle.
• n. (slang) A muffin.

pamper

• v. To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
• v. (dated) To feed luxuriously.

pillage

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
• n. The spoils of war.
• n. The act of pillaging.

pillaging

• v. present participle of pillage.

plunder

• v. (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
• v. (transitive) To take (goods) by pillage.
• v. (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
• v. (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
• v. To take unexpectedly.
• n. An instance of plundering.
• n. The loot attained by plundering.
• n. (slang, dated) baggage; luggage.

plundering

• v. present participle of plunder.
• n. The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.

preclude

• v. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

queer

• adj. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
• adj. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
• adj. (colloquial) Homosexual.
• adj. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
• adj. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual…
• n. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• n. (colloquial) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• n. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare…
• n. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
• v. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
• v. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• v. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• v. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…
• adv. Queerly.

rape

• n. (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
• n. (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
• n. The act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will;…
• n. (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
• n. (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
• n. (slang) Overpowerment; utter defeat.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.).
• v. (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
• v. (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their…
• v. (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
• v. (US slang, chiefly Internet) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
• n. (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
• n. (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
• adv. (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.
• n. Rapeseed, Brassica napus.
• n. The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
• n. A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
• n. (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.

ruin

• n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
• n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
• n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
• n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
• v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
• v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
• v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
• v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

scotch

• n. A surface cut or abrasion.
• n. A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
• n. A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
• v. (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
• v. (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
• v. (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
• v. (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
• v. (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To clothe or cover up.
• adj. Of Scottish origin.
• n. Whisky of Scottish origin.
• n. Scotch tape.
• v. (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) to rape.

spoilage

• n. The part of something that has spoiled.
• n. The process of spoiling.

spoiling

• v. present participle of spoil.
• n. plunder; pillage.

spoliation

• n. The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
• n. Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals…
• n. (law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary…

thwart

• v. (transitive) To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
• v. (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
• n. (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel…
• n. (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
• adj. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
• adj. (figuratively) Perverse; crossgrained.
• adv. Obliquely; transversely; athwart.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

violate

• v. (sometimes computing) To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
• v. (euphemistic) To rape.

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.