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spoiling

noun

plunder; pillage

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Meanings

verb

gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of spoil

nounspoiling (plural spoilings)

plural spoilings

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 […]

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe process of becoming spoiled

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nounthe act of spoiling something by causing damage to it

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Also see

corruption spoil spoilage

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

spoiling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoiling

MLA

“spoiling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoiling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spoiling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoiling.

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