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Verb
spoiling
- present participle and gerund of spoil
Noun
spoiling (plural spoilings)
- 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 […]
- May 10, 1775, Benjamin Franklin, Proposed Preamble to a Congressional Resolution on Privateering
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