"spoilt" in the verb sense

1. botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

make a mess of, destroy or ruin

"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"

"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

2. spoil, go bad

become unfit for consumption or use

"the meat must be eaten before it spoils"

3. corrupt, spoil

alter from the original

4. pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge

treat with excessive indulgence

"grandparents often pamper the children"

"Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

5. thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk

hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"

"foil your opponent"

6. itch, spoil

have a strong desire or urge to do something

"She is itching to start the project"

"He is spoiling for a fight"

7. rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder

destroy and strip of its possession

"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

8. mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate

make imperfect

"nothing marred her beauty"

"spoilt" in the adjective sense

1. spoiled, spoilt

having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention

"a spoiled child"

2. bad, spoiled, spoilt

of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

"bad meat"

"a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

3. blighted, spoilt

affected by blight anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity

"a blighted rose"

"blighted urban districts"

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