spoil
verb (used with object)
to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: Drought spoiled the corn crop.
will be spoiling
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future progressiveof spoil.future progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
Example Sentences
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If you leave your camping place littered with tin cans, paper, etc., you will be spoiling that place for future campers.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
“You will be spoiling the expedition before you have done.”
From The King's Esquires The Jewel of France by Fenn, George Manville
Read, my son; read, thou great fool, if indeed thou canst read," said the officer to encourage me; "there is nothing to kill thee, boy, and my supper will be spoiling.
From Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
You will be spoiling all your clothes, and getting yourselves into a heat!
From Holiday House A Series of Tales by Sinclair, Catherine
