"marring" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
          "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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        "present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling."
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  "etymology_text": "From mar + -ing.",
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          "text": "Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail.",
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        "Something that mars or spoils; a blemish."
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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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        "present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling."
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