SPOILT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spoilt mean? 

• SPOILT (adjective)
  The adjective SPOILT has 3 senses:

1. having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention

2. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

3. affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity

  Familiarity information: SPOILT used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOILT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention

Synonyms:

spoiled; spoilt

Context example:

a spoiled child

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

Synonyms:

bad; spoiled; spoilt

Context example:

a refrigerator full of spoilt food

Similar:

stale (lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity

Synonyms:

blighted; spoilt

Context example:

blighted urban districts

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

But I am spoilt, Fanny, for common female society.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“What, he spoilt you, I suppose?” returned Miss Betsey.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am losing all my bitterness against spoilt children, my dearest Emma.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There is a very clever essay in one of the books upstairs upon much such a subject, about young girls that have been spoilt for home by great acquaintance—The Mirror, I think.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But to be sure, in general they are so spoilt!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She had been indulged from her birth, but was not absolutely spoilt.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I’m afraid it has spoilt your beautiful bust, for it passed right through the head and flattened itself on the wall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Then she said: Well, Gretel, enjoy yourself, one fowl has been cut into, take another drink, and eat it up entirely; when it is eaten you will have some peace, why should God’s good gifts be spoilt?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Lucy directly drew her work table near her and reseated herself with an alacrity and cheerfulness which seemed to infer that she could taste no greater delight than in making a filigree basket for a spoilt child.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)