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unspoiling

unspoiling is the present participle and gerund of unspoil.

Meaning of unspoil

Verb

unspoil (third-person singular simple present unspoils, present participle unspoiling, simple past and past participle unspoiled or unspoilt)

  1. (transitive) To make less spoiled.
    • The week before, watching her work, Logerwell had called out to her, "I can tell you right now, if you mollycoddle a horse he'll turn out spoilt, and I've had to unspoil plenty of horses that've been girl-broke. […]2007, Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN

Questions about unspoiling

What is unspoiling the present participle and gerund of?
Unspoiling is the present participle and gerund of unspoil.

Words near unspoiling in the dictionary

  1. unspoiledness
  2. unspoiler
  3. unspoilered
  4. unspoilering
  5. unspoilers
  6. unspoiling
  7. unspoils
  8. unspoilt
  9. unspoiltness
  10. unspoke
  11. unspoked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unspoiling (page history and authors); unspoil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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