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Definition of Spoilt

1. Adjective. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention. "A spoiled child"

2. Adjective. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition. "A refrigerator full of spoilt food"

3. Adjective. Affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity. "Blighted urban districts"

Definition of Spoilt

1. Adjective. (U.K.) Having lost its original value ¹

2. Adjective. Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering ¹

4. Verb. (past of spoil) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spoilt

1. spoil [v] - See also: spoil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoilt

spoilered spoilerific spoilers spoilfive spoilful spoiling spoils spoils of war spoils system spoilsman

spoilsmen spoilsmonger spoilsmongers spoilsport spoilsports spoilt (current term) spoilt for choice spoke spoke-shave spoke in tongues

spoked spokein spokeless spoken spoken communication spoken for spoken in tongues spoken language spoken pause spoken pauses

Literary usage of Spoilt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Women and what is Said of Them: Reprint of a Series of Articles in by Elizabeth Lynn] [Linton (1868)
"LIKE children and all soft things, women are soon spoilt if subjected to ... Men get spoilt too in the same manner; but for the most part there is a tougher ..."

2. The Land of Veiled Women: Some Wanderings in Algeria, Tunisia & Morocco by John Foster Fraser (1911)
"For Biskra is spoilt—irrevocably spoilt. It has become the shrine of the galloping tourist, here to-day and gone the day after to-morrow. ..."

3. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"... to beat it into the coinage of their own day, they only spoilt it in trying to polish it. But on the other side, Donne's depth of feeling, ..."

4. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"spoilt Children. Equality and Levelling. — Silence of English Newspapers on Oregon Question. March 15. 1846.—FROM Natchez we crossed the river, ..."

5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Dough. Yorksh. DAT-HOUSE, 1 ». A dairy; aplace DEY-HOUSE, f for making cheese. S spoilt, as in cooking. Of a dun colour. ..."

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