spoilt
- v make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- v become unfit for consumption or use
- v alter from the original
- v treat with excessive indulgence
- v hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- v have a strong desire or urge to do something
- v destroy and strip of its possession
- v make imperfect
- s having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
- s (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
a refrigerator full of spoilt food - s affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
- His "spoilt and corrupt character" emerges like a combination of half a dozen case histories in abnormal psychology.
- At the age of eight, he begged to be sent away to boarding school "on the ground that he was being spoilt by his mother, qui en voulut faire un dlicat.
- Climate change geeks with a thing for international conferences like me were spoilt for choice this past week.