Spoilage

Definition: Spoilage

Spoilage

Noun

1. The amount that has spoiled.

2. The process of becoming spoiled.

3. The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Spoilage

Crosswords: Spoilage

Fundamentals of Fish Spoilage (1962)

Fish Spoilage Control (1956)

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Books

• Cold Tolerant Microbes in Spoilage and the Environment (Society for Applied Bacteriology Technical Series : No. 13) (reference)

• Food Microbiology: Public Health and Spoilage Aspects (reference)

• Fungi and Food Spoilage (reference)

• Handbook of Food Spoilage Yeasts (reference)

• Psychotropic Bacteria in FoodsDisease and Spoilage (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

Because the irradiated foods have fewer microbes of all sorts, including those that cause spoilage, they may have a longer shelf life before spoiling. (references)

Business

Older, inefficient grain drying and storage methods are also challenges the Chinese government has to face. Nearly ten percent of all grain output in China is lost due to preventable spoilage from inadequate packaging, storage, and transportation. (references)

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Expression using "spoilage": flat sour spoilage. Additional references.

Albanian

prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, leavings, litter, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, rubbish, shorts, stamping, survival, tailings, waste, wrack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, drain, injury, leakage, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, prejudice, ruination, sacrifice, seep, seepage, wastage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фира (wastage), изхабена хартия. (various references)

Chinese 

损坏 (damaged, Damaging, spoiled, spoiling, spoilt). (various references)

Czech

makulatura. (various references)

Danish

oedelaeggelse (destruction, deterioration), forringelse (degeneratio, degeneration, degradation, degrade, deterioration, impairment). (various references)

Dutch

kwaliteitsverlies (deterioration). (various references)

Finnish

pilaantuminen (deterioration). (various references)

French

détérioration. (various references)

German

Verdeb (deterioration). (various references)

Greek 

χάλασμα (ruin), φθορά (abrasion, attrition, corruption, decay, spoiling, wastage, waste, wear, wear and tear), αλλοίωση (corruption, deterioration, distortion, lesion). (various references)

Hebrew 

קלקול (corruption, damage, disgrace, Mar, sin, spoiling, vitiation), �"בר ש�"ושחת. (various references)

Hungarian

káló, hulladékpapír (scrap paper), hulladék (cabbage, clippings, cut-offs, cuttings, debris, dross, end, garbage, junk, lop, oddments, offal, paring, pickings, refuse, scrapings, spilt, sweepings, trash, wastage, waste). (various references)

Italian

deterioramento (deterioration, wear and tear), alterazione (alteration). (various references)

Manx

pabyr millit. (various references)

Pig Latin

oilagespay

Portuguese

resíduo (draff, marc, offal, remainder, residual, residue, residuum), refugo (cull, dirt, garbage, jetsam, mullock, offal, offscourings, raffle, refuse, reject, riffraff, rubbish, scum, trash, trumpery), escória (cinder, dirt, dreg, dregs, dross, raffle, refuse, scobs, scoria, scum, slag, trash), deterioração (damage, decay, deterioration, dilapidation, run-out). (various references)

Romanian

stricare (corruption, impairment, perversion), rebut (jetsam, refuse, reject, rubbish, scrap, scum, trash). (various references)

Russian 

порча (damage, defacement, depravation, deterioration, poisoning, vitiation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokvarenost (badness, baseness, rottenness, turpitude, viciousness), kvarenje (deterioration, ill use), škart (reject, write-offs). (various references)

Spanish

deterioro (damage, deterioration, deteriorative, disrepair, wear, wear and tear), desperdicio (garbage, leak, squandering, waste). (various references)

Swedish

förstöring (wreck), förlust av kvalitet (deterioration). (various references)

Thai

การเน่าเสีย, ของเสีย. (various references)

Turkish

hurda kâğıt, hasar (average, damage, depredation, detriment, harm, havoc, injury, mischief, scathe, wreckage), bozulmuş şey, bozulma (breach, breakdown, breakup, confusion, corrosion, corruption, decay, declension, decomposition, deformation, degeneration, degradation, derogation, deterioration, devolution, disfiguration, disfigurement, disruption, dissolution, impairment, infection, pollution, putrefaction, rancidity, rancidness, rottenness, shipwreck, taint, undoing, upset). (various references)

Ukrainian

брак (brack, dearth, defect, deficiency, discard [tech.], reject, waster), псування (blasting, corruption, defacement, depravation, deterioration, spoliation, vitiation, waste). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự l� m hư (vitiation), sự l� m hỏng (disconcertment), sự bị hỏng cái bị l� m hỏng giấy in bông. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spoilage": spoilages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spoilage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soilage, Spionage. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: epilogs, goalies, soilage.

-2 letters: aslope, epilog, espial, galops, goalie, gospel, ligase, lipase, pilose, plages, pogies, poleis, polies, silage.

-3 letters: aegis, agile, agios, aisle, aloes, gales, galop, gaols, gapes, glias, glops, goals, lapis, lapse, leaps, loges, logia, lopes, ogles, opals, pages, pails, paise, pales, paseo, peags, peals, pilea, piles, plage, pleas, plies, poise, poles.

+1 letter: apologies, apologise, pilotages, spoilages.

+2 letters: apiologies, apologised, apologises, apologizes, coliphages, escaloping, opalescing, polygamies.

+3 letters: apologetics, apologizers, escalloping, geophysical, graptolites, haplologies, heliographs, megalopolis, mesopelagic, pathologies, plagioclase, plasminogen, polygamizes, polyphagies, profligates.

+4 letters: archipelagos, escapologies, escapologist, graphologies, holographies, oligophagies, palynologies, papyrologies, pelargoniums, plagioclases, plasminogens, plasmogamies, praxeologies, profligacies, xylographies.

+5 letters: amphibologies, angioplasties, archipelagoes, aspergilloses, aspergillosis, campanologies, colleagueship, escapologists, expostulating, filmographies, flexographies, geophysically, hypoglycemias, lithographers, lithographies, megalopolises, paleographies, personalising, personalizing, phraseologies, phraseologist, planetologies, planetologist, planographies, primatologies, prodigalities, progressional, protogalaxies, psephological, speleological, stylographies, superregional.