Definition of "spoilt" [spoilt]

• A past tense and a past participle of spoil. (verb)

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• "'Well, how spoilt is the great man?' inquired Lord John, mischievously."
• "But, as one of the Sobral men wrote in his journal on the 30th, at 3 A.M., the mirror had again caused problems: It was found that there had been a serious change of focus, so that, while the stars were shown, the definition was spoilt."
• "Stefan at Ogle Earth has kind of spoilt the fun however by explaining that it is merely a grid of higher resolution sounding data amid a lower-resolution dataset, taken from a ship surveying the area."