spoiling

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spoiling

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of spoil

noun 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 […]

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Closest in meaning: spoilage, derailing, wrecking, ruining, wasting, impairing, corrupting, destroying, plundering, plunder, spoliation, spoilation, purloining, plunderage, freebooting, purloinment

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@misc{spoiling_2026,
  title = {spoiling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spoiling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}