🥛 Decay or damage 💔 Ruining something

spoiling

1 4.1

The process of food becoming rotten or unsafe to eat

noun
/ˈspɔɪlɪŋ/

: descomposición

The warm weather caused the milk to begin spoiling faster than usual.

Examples

Hans Herminettes French cat food was spoiling, but she also goes into useful detail about the demand for an increase in the living wage.
It looks just as good as it's not spoiling anything to say that like some scenes were shot in like desert environments.
After a few days in the fridge, the fruit started the process of spoiling and had to be thrown away.
Preventing the spoiling of leftovers requires proper storage in the freezer.

Synonyms

spoilage

vsspoiling

3 4.2

The way food goes bad and becomes unsafe to eat

applies to general items rather than mainly to food

ruining

vsspoiling

3.6

Damage that destroys something or makes it unusable

is an unintentional process of decay or damage rather than caused by action

Antonyms

restoration

98 3.4

The act of returning something to its original state

How Rotten

putrefaction

Specialized

3 8.9

spoiling

1 4.1

decay

19 3.4

freshness

15 1.0

Surface Forms

spoiling singular

spoiling plural

Morphology

spoiling = spoil (transparent) = spoil + ing

Standard -ing nominalization expressing the process/state of becoming spoiled; meaning is directly related to the verb.

Etymology

Spoiling also connects to the idea of losing good parts over time, and you can see this in the common word spoiled, as in 'spoiled food'. The root meant 'to take away', so when food loses its goodness or goes bad, we call that spoiling.