spoiling

verbnounattested in dialogue

plunder; pillage

verb

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Also a form of spoilpresent participle and gerund of spoil

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 […]

Forms

plural: spoilings

Spock · An American surname from Dutch.spoil · To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or…spoiled · That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable…

spoiling · plunder; pillage

spoils · That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the…spoilt · Having lost its original value spoke · A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a…

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