Past tense of spoil
regular verb
The past tense of spoil is spoiled or spoilt. The past participle is also spoiled or spoilt.
Forms of spoil
| Base form (V1) | spoil /spɔɪl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | spoiled /spɔɪld/ spoilt /spɔɪlt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | spoiled /spɔɪld/ spoilt /spɔɪlt/ |
| Present participle | spoiling |
| Third person singular | spoils /spɔɪlz/ |
Spoiled and spoilt in a sentence
- The princess confab also leads into a scene featuring Vanellope and the cast of Slaughter Race that probably shouldn’t be spoiled.2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club, archived...
- The organoleptic assessment of the wine showed that it was spoiled.From the entry organoleptic
- My little sister is so spoiled. She always gets her way, even when she misbehaves.From the entry get one's way
- The spoiled food would soon nastify the entire refrigerator if not thrown out.From the entry nastify
- The child was spoiled by constant gifts.From the entry spoiled
Meaning of spoil
- verb To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour.
- verb To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil.
- verb To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
Questions about the past tense of spoil
- What is the past tense of spoil?
- The past tense of spoil is spoiled or spoilt.
- What is the past participle of spoil?
- The past participle of spoil is spoiled or spoilt.
- Is spoil a regular or irregular verb?
- Spoil is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spoil (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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