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spoilings

spoilings is the plural of spoiling.

Meaning of spoiling

Noun

spoiling (plural spoilings)

  1. 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 […]

Questions about spoilings

What is spoilings the plural of?
Spoilings is the plural of spoiling.

Words near spoilings in the dictionary

  1. spoiling for a fight
  2. spoiling somebody rotten
  3. spoiling someone rotten
  4. spoiling the market
  5. spoiling the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
  6. spoilings
  7. spoilless
  8. spoils
  9. spoils of war
  10. spoils somebody rotten
  11. spoils someone rotten

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