Spoiling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plunder; pillage

    "May 10, 1775, Benjamin Franklin, Proposed Preamble to a Congressional Resolution on Privateering […] all the spoilings, thefts, burnings of houses and towns, and murders of innocent people, perpetrated by their wicked and inhuman corsairs on our coasts […]"

  2. 2
    the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it wordnet
  3. 3
    the process of becoming spoiled wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of spoil form-of, gerund, participle, present

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banditrybankruptcybreakagebreakdowncollapsecorruption

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"All at once, the Buddhist priest burst into laughter, spoiling the solemn atmosphere."

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