Definitions for spoilt

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IPA: /spɔɪlt/

Spoilt is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in spoilt (ilopst).

Definitions for spoilt

noun

1. Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
2. the act of plundering.
3. an object of plundering.
4. Usually, spoils. the emoluments and advantages of public office viewed as won by a victorious political party: prizes won or treasures accumulated:
5. waste material, as that which is cast up in mining, excavating, quarrying, etc.
6. an imperfectly made object, damaged during the manufacturing process.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of spoil.

Idioms

1. be spoiling for, Informal. to be very eager for; be desirous of:

verb (used with object)

1. to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.:
2. to diminish or impair the quality of; affect detrimentally:
3. to impair, damage, or harm the character or nature of (someone) by unwise treatment, excessive indulgence, etc.:
4. Archaic. to strip (persons, places, etc.) of goods, valuables, etc.; plunder; pillage; despoil.
5. Archaic. to take or seize by force.

verb (used without object)

1. to become bad, or unfit for use, as food or other perishable substances; become tainted or putrid:
2. to plunder, pillage, or rob.

Origin of spoilt

1300-50; (v.) Middle English spoilen Old French espoillier Latin spoliāre to despoil, equivalent to spoli(um) booty + -āre infinitive suffix; (noun) derivative of the v. or Old French espoill

Examples for spoilt

They have failed in everything, spoilt everything, as though out of pleasure.

He saw himself as he had really been—selfish, unreasonable, and spoilt.

It is not only nonsense, but blasphemy, to say that man has spoilt the country.

I went to my sister Eliza, and I said: 'Some way or another, you've spoilt my life.

He has only put four windows in, the villain, and spoilt it!'

If you'd had your way, you'd have spoilt the fun to come, and ruined us.'

"You spoilt him, Jenkins; that's the fact," observed Mr. Galloway.

It can't spoil anything now to tell you, because everything is spoilt.

Clearly, we have been spoilt by Stephen Frears and Helen Mirren with The Queen.

Perhaps if Vicky had been a boy she would have been spoilt and selfish too.