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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
see also:
spoiled spoilt spoiling despoil spoliation
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
spoiled
adj 1: treated with excessive indulgence; "pampered from earliest
childhood, he believed the world had been invented for
his entertainment" syn: coddled, pampered
2: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or
oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" syn: spoilt
3: of foodstuffs not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" syn: bad, spoilt
see also:
coddled pampered spoilt bad
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
130 moby thesaurus words for "spoiled":
ausgespielt, bad, bankrupt, barfy, beautiless, blasted, blemished,
blighted, blotted, botched, brackish, broken, bungled, butchered,
cacophonic, cacophonous, cankered, carious, cloying, coddled,
corrupt, decayed, decomposed, defaced, desolated, destroyed,
devastated, disfigured, done for, done in, down-and-out,
dysphemistic, dysphemized, fallen, festering, fetid, finished,
flawed, foul, fulsome, fumbled, gangrened, gangrenous, gone bad,
gone to pot, high, homely, icky, ill-advised, ill-considered,
ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed,
impaired, impolitic, in ruins, indulged, inelegant, irremediable,
kaput, maggoty, marred, mawkish, misconducted, misdirected,
misguided, mismanaged, mortified, muffed, murdered, nasty,
nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, necrosed, necrotic, negligent,
noisome, noxious, off, offensive, overripe, overthrown, pampered,
peccant, plain, poisonous, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rancid,
rank, ravaged, rebarbative, rotten, rotting, ruined, ruinous,
short on looks, sickening, sphacelated, spoiled rotten, spoilt,
stinking, suppurating, suppurative, tainted, uglified, ugly,
ugly as hell, ugly as sin, ulcerated, unaesthetic, unattractive,
unbeautiful, uncomely, undone, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasing,
unpretty, unsightly, vile, vomity, wasted, weevily, wrecked,
yucky
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