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Antonyms for spoilt

Grammar : Verb
Spell : spoilt
Phonetic Transcription : spɔɪlt


Definition of spoilt

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French espoillier "to strip, plunder," from Latin spoliare "to strip of clothing, rob," from spolium "armor stripped from an enemy, booty;" originally "skin stripped from a killed animal," from PIE *spol-yo-, perhaps from root *spel- "to split, to break off" (cf. Greek aspalon "skin, hide," spolas "flayed skin;" Lithuanian spaliai "shives of flax;" Old Church Slavonic rasplatiti "to cleave, split;" Middle Low German spalden, Old High German spaltan "to split;" Sanskrit sphatayati "splits").
  • Sense of "to damage so as to render useless" is from 1560s; that of "to over-indulge" (a child, etc.) is from 1640s (implied in spoiled). Intransitive sense of "to go bad" is from 1690s. To be spoiling for (a fight, etc.) is from 1865, from notion that one will "spoil" if he doesn't get it. Spoil-sport attested from 1801.
  • verb ruin, hurt
  • verb baby, indulge
  • verb decay, turn bad
Example sentences :
  • I went to my sister Eliza, and I said: 'Some way or another, you've spoilt my life.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • It can't spoil anything now to tell you, because everything is spoilt.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • "You spoilt him, Jenkins; that's the fact," observed Mr. Galloway.
  • Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • It is not only nonsense, but blasphemy, to say that man has spoilt the country.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • He has only put four windows in, the villain, and spoilt it!'
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • They have failed in everything, spoilt everything, as though out of pleasure.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • If you'd had your way, you'd have spoilt the fun to come, and ruined us.'
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • Perhaps if Vicky had been a boy she would have been spoilt and selfish too.
  • Extract from : « Great Uncle Hoot-Toot » by Mrs. Molesworth
  • He saw himself as he had really been—selfish, unreasonable, and spoilt.
  • Extract from : « Great Uncle Hoot-Toot » by Mrs. Molesworth
  • You see, Mother was far too strong and wise to spoil me as little Fay is spoilt.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker

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