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spoiled |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spoil \Spoil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spoiled}or {Spoilt}; p. pr & vb n. {Spoiling}.] [F. spolier, OF espoilelier 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 possession. ``Ye shall spoil the Egyptians.'' --Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eues. --Pope. 2. To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder. 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. 3. To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar. Spiritual pride spoils many graces. --Jer. Taylor. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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