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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spoil \Spoil\ (spoil), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Spoiled} (spoild) or {Spoilt} (spoilt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Spoiling}.] [F. spolier, OF. espoillier, 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 possessions. ''Ye shall spoil the Egyptians.'' --Ex. iii. 22.
My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes. --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 corrupt; 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) 2.0 [wn]:
spoiled
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "spoiled": ausgespielt, bad, bankrupt, barfy, beautiless, blasted, blemished, blighted, blotted, botched, brackish, broken, bungled, butchered, cacophonic, cacophonous, cankered, carious, cloying, coddled, corrupt, decayed, decomposed, defaced, desolated, destroyed, devastated, disfigured, done for, done in, down-and-out, dysphemistic, dysphemized, fallen, festering, fetid, finished, flawed, foul, fulsome, fumbled, gangrened, gangrenous, gone bad, gone to pot, high, homely, icky, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impaired, impolitic, in ruins, indulged, inelegant, irremediable, kaput, maggoty, marred, mawkish, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, mortified, muffed, murdered, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, necrosed, necrotic, negligent, noisome, noxious, off, offensive, overripe, overthrown, pampered, peccant, plain, poisonous, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged, rebarbative, rotten, rotting, ruined, ruinous, short on looks, sickening, sphacelated, spoiled rotten, spoilt, stinking, suppurating, suppurative, tainted, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, ulcerated, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, undone, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly, vile, vomity, wasted, weevily, wrecked, yucky
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