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Spoilt   Listen
verb
Spoil  v. t.  (past & past part. spoilt or spoiled; pres. part. spoiling)  
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." "My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes."
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."
3.
To cause to decay and perish; to corrupt; to vitiate; to mar. "Spiritual pride spoils many graces."
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.


Spoil  v. i.  (past & past part. spoilt or spoiled; pres. part. spoiling)  
1.
To practice plunder or robbery. "Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil."
2.
To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.





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"Spoilt" Quotes from Famous Books



... It was not jealousy, but I did feel rather critical of this mushroom intimacy. So I followed up, feeling that the evening was spoilt for me—and God knows I was right! Not till my dying day shall I forget the tableau that awaited me in those familiar rooms. I see it now as plainly as I see the problem picture of the year, which lies in wait for one in all the illustrated papers; indeed, ...
— Mr. Justice Raffles • E. W. Hornung
... Shelley writes me, that poor John Keats died at Rome of the 'Quarterly Review?' I am very sorry for it; though I think he took the wrong line as a poet, and was spoilt by Cockneyfying and suburbing, and versifying Tooke's 'Pantheon' and Lempriere's 'Dictionary.' I know by experience, that a savage review is hemlock to a sucking author; and the one on me (which produced the 'English ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli
... creatures in Christendom," she said to herself; "for my part I can't understand anyone going into raptures over them. For one nice child there are twenty disagreeable ones. I have nothing to say against Babs, of course; but Judy, she is about the most spoilt creature I ever came across, and of course it is all Hilda's fault. I must speak to Mr. Merton, I really must, if this goes on. Hilda and Judy ought to be parted, but of course Hilda won't leave home unless, unless—ah, I wonder if there is any chance of that. Too good ...
— A Young Mutineer • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... lively spoilt darling. She married John Rokesmith (i.e., John Harmon).—C. Dickens, Our Mutual ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... bit spoilt." He seemed to be referring to the aristocracy. "But there's plenty of stuff in him, or I'm much mistaken. He's ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope


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