| spoil | (verb) become unfit for consumption or use | Synonyms: go bad |
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| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate |
| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: itch |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper |
| (verb) 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 |
| spondaise | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaize |
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| spondaize | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaise |
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| sponge | (verb) wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten | - |
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| (verb) erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard | - |
| (verb) soak up with a sponge | - |
| (verb) gather sponges, in the ocean | - |
| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, mooch |
| sponsor | (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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| (verb) assume responsibility for or leadership of | - |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at |
| spoof | (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: burlesque, parody |
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| spook | (verb) frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | - |
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| spool | (verb) wind onto a spool or a reel | - |
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| (verb) transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage | - |
| spoon | (verb) scoop up or take up with a spoon | - |
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| (verb) snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others | Synonyms: smooch |
| spoonfeed | (verb) teach without challenging the students | - |
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| (verb) feed with a spoon | - |
| sport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark |
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| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, feature |
| sportscast | (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
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| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| spot | (verb) mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition | - |
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| (verb) become spotted | - |
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck |
| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: blemish |
| (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, espy, spy |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart |
| spotlight | (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
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| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| spout | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave |
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| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spurt |