Spoil
Part of speech: noun
Definition: (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil. To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
Example sentence: The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Mollycoddle
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.