"marring" meaning in English

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          "text": "[…]Hath all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?\nFrom Tripolis, from Mexico, from England,\nFrom Lisbon, Barbary, and India?\nAnd not one vessel scape the dreadful touch\nOf merchant-marring rocks?",
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