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Rotting vs Spoiling - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between rotting and spoiling

is that rotting is present participle of lang=en while spoiling is present participle of spoil.

As nouns the difference between rotting and spoiling

is that rotting is the process by which something rots while spoiling is plunder; pillage.

rotting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which something rots.
  • * 1686 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (page 214)
    • the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.
  • Material that has rotted.
  • * , Possum
    • From the compost rinds and rottings , from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.

    spoiling

    English

    (decomposition)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • plunder; pillage
  • * Benjamin Franklin