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Spoilt

adjective

1.

Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention. Synonym: spoiled.

2.

(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition. Synonyms: bad, spoiled. "A refrigerator full of spoilt food"

3.

Affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity. Synonym: blighted. "Blighted urban districts"

Spoil

verb

(past & past part. spoilt or spoiled; pres. part. spoiling)

1.

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. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

2.

Become unfit for consumption or use. Synonym: go bad.

3.

Alter from the original. Synonym: corrupt.

4.

Treat with excessive indulgence. Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper. "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

5.

Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of. Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart. "Foil your opponent"

6.

Have a strong desire or urge to do something. Synonym: itch. "He is spoiling for a fight"

7.

Destroy and strip of its possession. Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate.

8.

Make imperfect. Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate.

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"Spoilt" Quotes from Famous Books

... to herself; "for my part I can't understand anyone going into raptures over them. For one nice child there are twenty disagreeable ones. I have nothing to say against Babs, of course; but Judy, she is about the most spoilt creature I ever came across, and of course it is all Hilda's fault. I must speak to Mr. Merton, I really must, if this goes on. Hilda and Judy ought to be parted, but of course Hilda won't leave home unless, unless—ah, I wonder if there is any chance of that. Too good news to be ...

— A Young Mutineer • Mrs. L. T. Meade

... whether the hairs on your forehead be many or few, you know not, but do know well that it behoves an old man to be cheery in proportion to the propinquity of his exit, and go on your way rejoicing through this beautiful world, which not even the Radicals have quite spoilt yet. ...

— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... "That's just the tiresome part of it. I've been for a little trip abroad, you see, and have been a bit spoilt. That was in a country down south. I took a nap under the beech-trees there. They are tall, slender trees, not crooked old fellows like you. And their tops are so dense that the sunbeams can't pierce through them at all. It was a real delight to ...

— The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories • Carl Ewald

... irresistible contagion in the mirth of her young cousin, but still she could not help feeling sad. It was not merely that she would have to part with Eric, "but that bright boy," thought Fanny, "what will become of him? I have heard strange things of schools; oh, if he should be spoilt and ruined, what misery it would be. Those baby lips, that pure young heart, a year may work sad change in their words and thoughts!" She sighed again, and her eyes glistened as she raised them upwards, ...

— Eric • Frederic William Farrar

... courtship promotes conjugal felicity more than anything else whatever. A lady, asked why she didn't marry, since she had so many making love to her, replied: "Because being courted is too great a luxury to be spoilt ...

— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke

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