spoiled
坏了,被宠坏的,糟蹋,坏了的
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Definitions
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spoiled or spoilt, spoil·ing.
- : to damage severely or harm, especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- : to diminish or impair the quality of; affect detrimentally: Bad weather spoiled their vacation.
- : to impair, damage, or harm the character or nature of by unwise treatment, excessive indulgence, etc.: to spoil a child by pampering him.
- : Archaic. to strip of goods, valuables, etc.; plunder; pillage; despoil.
- : Archaic. to take or seize by force.
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spoiled or spoilt, spoil·ing.
- : to become bad, or unfit for use, as food or other perishable substances; become tainted or putrid: Milk spoils if not refrigerated.
- : to plunder, pillage, or rob.
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- : Often spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- : the act of plundering.
- : an object of plundering.
- : Usually spoils. the emoluments and advantages of public office viewed as won by a victorious political party: the spoils of office.prizes won or treasures accumulated: a child's spoils brought home from a party.
- : waste material, as that which is cast up in mining, excavating, quarrying, etc.
- : an imperfectly made object, damaged during the manufacturing process.
Phrases
- spoil for
- spare the rod and spoil the child
- too many cooks spoil the broth
- to the victor belong the spoils
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Yes, Mailer was, as he readily admitted, something of a spoiled Jewish boy.
That kind of spoiled naïveté seems inexcusable in a clearly intelligent author who is pushing 30.
Poor Stone, like most of us, forced to share a stage with this unpredictable, spoiled brat, looked uncomfortable.
They have putrid California grapes for eyes, puffed-out cheeks of spoiled plums, sweltered eggplant lips.
Even stories of cruise ships in trouble with leaky toilets and spoiled food are popular.
Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.
But this sudden blow was a reminder that fate had been capricious to spoiled darlings before.
Entrusted with sixty thousand men with orders to make a vast turning movement, his timidity spoiled the Emperor's careful plans.
He would never suffer that fine crop of hay to be spoiled; and father, with no one here to help him to bring it in.
He has been with me to see old Mrs. Robins, and she made so much of him, that if I take him again he'll be regularly spoiled.