different between spoiled vs unspoil

English

Alternative forms

• spoilt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp??ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Verb

spoiled

1. simple past tense and past participle of spoil

Adjective

spoiled (comparative more spoiled, superlative most spoiled)

1. (of food) That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
2. (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.

Usage notes

• Much more common in the US than spoilt, while about as common as spoilt in UK.

Translations

Further reading

• spoiled at OneLook Dictionary Search
• spoiled, spoilt at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• despoil, diploes, diploës, dipoles, elopids, peloids, soliped

English

Etymology

un- +? spoil

Verb

unspoil (third-person singular simple present unspoils, present participle unspoiling, simple past and past participle unspoiled or unspoilt)

1. (transitive) To make less spoiled.
   • 2007, Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses, Houghton Mifflin Company (2007), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     The week before, watching her work, Logerwell had called out to her, "I can tell you right now, if you mollycoddle a horse he'll turn out spoilt, and I've had to unspoil plenty of horses that've been girl-broke. […]

   • 2007, Donald Trump & Bill Zanker, Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life, HarperCollins (2007), ?ISBN, page 155:

     A few negative people can ruin an entire office environment, which shows you how powerful negativity is. It is so bad, even positive workers can't “unspoil” it.

   • 2011, Jane Douch, From Pamela Jane with Some Honor, Strategic Book Group (2011), ?ISBN, page 32:

     As John grew into a toddler he was quite spoilt, so I took the serious responsibility of unspoiling him.

Anagrams

• Poulins, pulsion, upsilon