spoiling

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Verb

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spoiling

  1. present participle and gerund of spoil

Noun

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spoiling (plural spoilings)

  1. plunder; pillage
    • May 10, 1775, Benjamin Franklin, Proposed Preamble to a Congressional Resolution on Privateering
      […] all the spoilings, thefts, burnings of houses and towns, and murders of innocent people, perpetrated by their wicked and inhuman corsairs on our coasts […]
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