ETYM Old Eng. adlen, adilen, to gain, acquire; prob. from Icel. öthlask to acquire property, akin to othal property. Related to Allodial.
1. To become rotten; of eggs.
2. To mix up or confuse; SYN. muddle, puddle.

ETYM Cf. French barbariser, Late Lat. barbarizare.
(Alternate spelling: barbarise).
To make barbarous; SYN. barbarise.

To cause to suffer a blight; SYN. plague.

To corrupt; to render morally corrupt.

1. To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

ETYM See Ruin (n.).
1. To cause to fail.
2. To reduce to ruins.

(Irregular preterit, past participle: spoiled; or p.p.: spoilt).
To become unfit for consumption or use; SYN. go bad.

ETYM French teint, p. p. of teindre to dye, tinge, from Latin tingere, tinctum. Related to Tinge, Tint.
To contaminate; to make impure.

1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to contaminate; to spoil.
2. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to annul.
3. Impair quality of; make invalid; spoil; make impure
4. Impair; spoil; debase; make useless or impure.

ETYM Old Eng. bane destruction, AS. bana murderer; akin to Icel. bani death, murderer, Old High Germ. bana murder, bano murderer, Goth. banja stroke, wound, Greek phoneys murderer, phonos murder, OIr. bath death, benim I strike.
Something causes misery or death; SYN. curse, scourge, nemesis.

ETYM Latin, from Greek Nemesis, orig., distribution, from nemein to distribute. Related to Nomad.
(Irregular plural: nemeses).
A formidable opponent; an arch-enemy.

ETYM French, from Latin perditio, from perdere, perditum, to ruin, to lose; per (cf. Skr. parâ away) + -dere (only in comp.) to put.
1. Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
2. Eternal damnation.
3. Damnation; hell.

ETYM Old Eng. ruine, French ruine, from Latin ruina, from ruere, rutum, to fall with violence, to rush or tumble down.
1. A ruined building.
2. An event that results in destruction; SYN. ruination.

ETYM Latin vitiatio.
Nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null.

1. To make imperfect; SYN. impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate.
2. To detract from the perfection or wholeness of; spoil