Synonyms:
spoil, spoiling, spoilage
Meaning: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
Synonyms:
spoilage, spoiling
Meaning: the process of becoming spoiled
Usage examples
To explain matters now would do no good, spoiling as it would Galva's happiness.
It should be kept in a cool, airy place, away from the flies, and if there is any danger of its spoiling, a little salt should be rubbed over it.
At last when Zip was entirely clean and had been wrapped in a big bath towel to dry, Doctor Elsworth apologized to Helen for his little dog spoiling her candy pull.
But, by-and-by, he had a little daughter so strong and healthy that neither her mother's temper nor her father's spoiling could keep her from growing up tall and beautiful.
At times she wished that she had never gone into the affair; at others, she trembled lest she should be paralysed with fear and stand white and gasping, not knowing what to say and spoiling the entire performance.
And everything so vaunted the spoiling influences of water--discoloured copper, rotten wood, honey-combed stone, green dank deposit--that the after-consequences of being crushed, sucked under, and drawn down, looked as ugly to the imagination as the main event.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cheese, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Priapus, License CC BY-SA 4.0