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adjective

Definition of spoilingnext
as in spoiled

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spoiling

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noun

as in rotting

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spoiling

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verb

present participle of spoil
1
as in marring
to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable too much coddling will spoil the child

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2
as in decomposing
to go through decomposition the meat has spoiled

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3
as in damaging
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of know when to stop, for an unnecessary brushstroke can spoil a painted portrait

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4
as in indulging
to treat with great or excessive care when they were newlyweds, the wife tended to spoil her husband, but she soon got over that

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoiling
  1. indulging
  2. decay
  3. rotten
  4. disintegration
  5. injuring
  6. dark age
  7. decaying
  8. compromising
Verb
  • But doing it too much and indulging to much could be a reason to evaluate the motive.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Those indulging on social media often post photos to track their progress (again, these links are NSFW).
    Mikelle Street, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of indulging
Noun
  • More than half of Californians and nearly 75% of U.S. residents live in communities where fluoride has been added to drinking water to prevent tooth decay, an intervention hailed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as one of the 20th century’s greatest public health achievements.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Adding low levels of fluoride to drinking water is widely considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century for its role in preventing tooth decay.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of decay
Adjective
  • At least Kristi and Mari could be there to keep an eye on her, instead of just letting her fend for herself near all that juicy, rotten produce.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The big picture: The city's Solid Waste Management Department will accept rotten jack-o'-lantern carcasses and other pumpkin remnants today through Dec. 6 — a longer window than in past years.
    Shafaq Patel, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of rotten
Noun
  • Sign up The disintegration happens in a process called decratonization.
    Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Shortly after Matt recounts his marriage’s disintegration, Chris turns in.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
Definition of disintegration
Verb
  • The strikes come after Ukraine launched its largest drone attack on Moscow since the Kremlin's full-scale invasion began in 2022, injuring one person and forcing three major airports to divert flights.
    Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Ukraine launched its largest drone attack on the Russian capital city of Moscow since the full-scale war began in 2022, injuring one person and forcing three major airports to divert flights, as Russia fired an unprecedented 145 drones against Ukraine.
    Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
Definition of injuring
Noun
  • With most of the studio’s fabled animators having retired and productions being scaled back, Disney entered a dark age of animation marked by edgier stories and alienated audiences.
    Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
  • Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy — one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 June 2024
Definition of dark age
Verb
  • The abundance of decaying plants provided a rich source of sustenance for many fungi, which, in turn, increased their chances of encountering ants that were actively foraging in the same environment.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2024
  • To do that, both spacecraft rely on three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) fueled by decaying plutonium-238.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of decaying
Verb
  • First, Nabi recognized consumers’ developing propensity to over-use harsh active ingredients in a way that was compromising the skin’s protective moisture barrier.
    Jessica Ourisman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Beginning as far back as 2019, network management platform SolarWinds was hacked by Russian actors who inserted malicious code into an update, compromising networks of what was thought to be thousands of customers, including local, state and federal governments.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of compromising
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