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 See spoil
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. [1913 Webster] My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To seize by violence; to take by force; to plunder. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. To cause to decay and perish; to corrupt; to vitiate; to mar. [1913 Webster] Spiritual pride spoils many graces. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]