Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Spoiled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spoil \Spoil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spoiled}or {Spoilt}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Spoiling}.] [F. spolier, OF. espoilelier, fr. L.
spoliare, fr. spolium spoil. Cf. {Despoil}, {Spoliation}.]
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 possession. ``Ye shall spoil the
Egyptians.'' --Ex. iii. 22.
My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
his kingdom, and deprived of eues. --Pope.
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. --Mark iii.
27.
3. To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to
mar.
Spiritual pride spoils many graces. --Jer. Taylor.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spoiled
adj 1: treated with excessive indulgence; "pampered from earliest
childhood, he believed the world had been invented for
his entertainment" [syn: {coddled}, {pampered}]
2: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or
oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" [syn: {spoilt}]
3: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: {bad}, {spoilt}]
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