Spoiling
noun, verb
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it wordnet
- 3 the process of becoming spoiled wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of spoil form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"All at once, the Buddhist priest burst into laughter, spoiling the solemn atmosphere."