spoiling

English

Verb

spoiling

1. present participle and gerund of spoil

Noun

spoiling (plural spoilings)

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 […]

Related terms

• Q-spoiling

Anagrams

• pignolis