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spoiling en · NOUN
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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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spoiling en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of spoil