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present participle and gerund of spoil examples
plural spoilings
plunder; pillage quotations examples
[…] 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