Search Result:spoilt
KK Pronunciation
〔 spɒIlt 〕
Pronunciation
〔 spɒilt 〕
Overview of verb spoil
The verb spoil has 8 senses
- 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")
- spoil, go bad -- (become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils")
- corrupt, spoil -- (alter from the original)
- pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge -- (treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!")
- 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")
- itch, spoil -- (have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight")
- rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder -- (destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country")
- mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate -- (make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty")
Overview of adj spoilt
The adj spoilt has 3 senses
- spoiled, spoilt -- (having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child")
- bad, spoiled, spoilt -- ((of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food")
- blighted, spoilt -- (affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts")