Spoilt vs Broken - What's the difference?
spoilt | broken |
(UK) Having lost its original value
Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering
(spoil)
Fragmented, in separate pieces.
# Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
# (label) Split or ruptured.
# Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
# (label) Interrupted; not continuous.
#* (rfdate), , White Fang :
# Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Breeched; violated; not kept.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
# Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
# Badly designed or implemented.
# Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.
# Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
(label) Uneven.
* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:
Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
As adjectives the difference between spoilt and broken
is that spoilt is having lost its original value while broken is fragmented, in separate pieces.As verbs the difference between spoilt and broken
is that spoilt is past tense of spoil while broken is past participle of lang=en.As a proper noun Broken is
torres Strait Creole.spoilt
English
Alternative forms
* spoiledAdjective
(en-adj) (UK spelling)Usage notes
* Much less common than (spoiled) in US. * About as common as "spoiled" in UK.Antonyms
* (food ): eatable, edible, fresh, good, unspoilt * (person ): unspoiltVerb
(head)Anagrams
*broken
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is broken !
- the ground was littered with broken bones
- A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken .
- Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
- Tomorrow: broken skies.
- broken''' promises of neutrality'', '''''broken''' vows'', ''the '''broken covenant
- I think my doorbell broken .
- This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
- Oh man! That is just broken !
- The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken .
- (en)
- All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.