Found 2 items, similar to Spoilt.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: spoilt
spoilt
adj 1: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or
oversolicitous attention;
“a spoiled child” [syn:
spoiled]
2: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition;
“bad
meat”;
“a refrigerator full of spoilt food” [syn:
bad,
spoiled]
3: affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or
prosperity;
“a blighted rose”;
“blighted urtan districts”
[syn:
blighted]
spoil
v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin;
“I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out”;
“the pianist screwed up the
difficult passage in the second movement” [syn:
botch,
bumble,
fumble,
botch up,
muff,
blow,
flub,
screw up,
ball up,
muck up,
bungle,
fluff,
bollix,
bollix up,
bollocks,
bollocks up,
bobble,
mishandle,
louse up,
foul up,
mess up,
fuck up]
2: become unfit for consumption or use;
“the meat must be eaten
before it spoils” [syn:
go bad]
3: alter from the original [syn:
corrupt]
4: treat with excessive indulgence;
“grandparents often pamper
the children”;
“Let's not mollycoddle our students!” [syn:
pamper,
featherbed,
cosset,
cocker,
baby,
coddle,
mollycoddle,
indulge]
5: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
“What
ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing
September surge”;
“foil your opponent” [syn:
thwart,
queer,
scotch,
foil,
cross,
frustrate,
baffle,
bilk]
6: have a strong desire or urge to do something;
“She is
itching to start the project”;
“He is spoiling for a
fight” [syn:
itch]
7: destroy and strip of its possession;
“The soldiers raped the
beautiful country” [syn:
rape,
despoil,
violate,
plunder]
8: make imperfect;
“nothing marred her beauty” [syn:
mar,
impair,
deflower,
vitiate]
[also:
spoilt]
spoil
n 1: (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in
war);
“to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy”
2: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it;
“her
spoiling my dress was deliberate” [syn:
spoiling,
spoilage]
3: the act of stripping and taking by force [syn:
spoliation,
spoilation,
despoilation,
despoilment,
despoliation]
[also:
spoilt]
spoilt
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English → English (gcide)
Definition: Spoilt
Spoil
\Spoil\ (spoil), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Spoiled (spoild) or
Spoilt (spoilt); p. pr. & vb. n.
Spoiling.] [F. spolier,
OF. espoillier, fr. L. spoliare, fr. spolium spoil. Cf.
Despoil,
Spoliation.]
1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; --
with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil
one of his goods or possessions.
“Ye shall spoil the
Egyptians.” --Ex. iii. 22.
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My sons their old, unhappy sire despise,
Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes.
--Pope.
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2. To seize by violence; to take by force; to plunder.
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No man can enter into a strong man's house, and
spoil his goods, except he will first bind the
strong man. --Mark iii.
27.
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3. To cause to decay and perish; to corrupt; to vitiate; to
mar.
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Spiritual pride spoils many graces. --Jer. Taylor.
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4. To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin;
to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled
by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
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