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plunder; pillage
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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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the process of becoming spoiled
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the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
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her spoiling my dress was deliberate