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How to pronounce spoilt in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blighted
Type Words
Synonyms spoiled
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Synonyms bad, spoiled


a refrigerator full of spoilt food.

Examples of spoilt

spoilt
On the Conflict Islands you will be spoilt for choice on how to spend your days.
From the dailymercury.com.au
It was a thoroughly entertaining routine, spoilt only by a mistake near the end.
From the independent.co.uk
Digital TV carries so many channels that viewers can often be spoilt for choice.
From the newscientist.com
You are just so spoilt for choice that on our last trip we had to write a list.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Same with comedy, the more spoilt kids doing it, the more reactionary it becomes.
From the independent.co.uk
Fancy being spoilt rotten with beauty treatments, champagne and top-notch food?
From the people.co.uk
With a variety of affordable hotels in Madrid you really are spoilt for choice.
From the independent.co.uk
What kind of hotel will this rather spoilt new-age traveller be checking in to?
From the economist.com
Now, with more than 50 wineries in the region, a wine-lover is spoilt for choice.
From the couriermail.com.au
More examples
  • (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war); "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
  • Botch: 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"
  • The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
  • Become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
  • Corrupt: alter from the original
  • The act of stripping and taking by force
  • In Archaeology, spoil is the term used for the soil, dirt and rubble that results from an excavation, and discarded off site on spoil heaps. These heaps are commonly accessed by barrow runs.
  • A spoiled child (also called a spoiled brat) is a child that exhibits behavioral problems from overindulgence by his or her parents. Spoiled children may be described as "overindulged", "grandiose", "narcissistic" or "egocentric-regressed". ...
  • (Spoiled (play)) Spoiled is a television and stage play by Simon Gray, first broadcast by the BBC in 1968 and later adapted for the stage. ...