spoils in English

noun

1

goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place.

the looters carried their spoils away

synonyms: booty, loot, stolen goods, plunder, ill-gotten gains, haul, pickings, swag, boodle, benefits, advantages, perks, prize, perquisites

2

waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation.

It also looks at how existing spoil heaps are being leveled and landscaped.

verb

1

diminish or destroy the value or quality of.

I wouldn't want to spoil your fun

synonyms: mar, damage, impair, blemish, disfigure, blight, flaw, deface, scar, injure, harm, ruin, destroy, wreck, be a blot on the landscape

2

harm the character of (a child) by being too lenient or indulgent.

the last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas

synonyms: overindulge, pamper, indulge, mollycoddle, cosset, coddle, baby, wait on hand and foot, kill with kindness, nanny

3

be extremely or aggressively eager for.

Cooper was spoiling for a fight

4

rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence.

noun

booty, loot, stolen goods, plunder, ill-gotten gains, haul, pickings, swag, boodle
benefits, advantages, perks, prize, perquisites

noun

spoiling, despoliation
spoiling, spoilage
despoliation, spoliation, despoilment

verb

mar, ruin, overindulge, go bad, muff, featherbed, impair, corrupt, despoil, cross, itch
mar, damage, impair, blemish, disfigure, blight, flaw, deface, scar, injure, harm, ruin, destroy, wreck, be a blot on the landscape
ruin, wreck, destroy, upset, undo, mess up, make a mess of, dash, sabotage, scotch, torpedo, foul up, louse up, muck up, screw up, put the kibosh on, scuttle, do for, throw a (monkey) wrench in the works of, deep-six, bring to naught
overindulge, pamper, indulge, mollycoddle, cosset, coddle, baby, wait on hand and foot, kill with kindness, nanny
go bad, go off, go rancid, turn, go sour, go moldy, go rotten, rot, perish
muff, bungle, mess up, botch, mishandle, bodge, botch up, flub, screw up, fluff, bumble, louse up, fumble, bollix, blow, bollocks, muck up, fuck up, ball up, bobble, foul up
featherbed, cocker, indulge, coddle, mollycoddle, baby, cosset, pamper
impair, mar, deflower, vitiate
corrupt
go bad
despoil, rape, violate, plunder
cross, baffle, foil, queer, scotch, frustrate, thwart, bilk
itch

Use "spoils" in a sentence

1. He spoils?

2. Spoils will be enjoyed.

3. Too much liberty spoils all.

4. To the victors belong the spoils.

5. Set's army returns with spoils of war.

6. He is a financier who spoils widows.

7. Instruction for spoils of war (13-54)

8. To the victor go the spoils. 

9. To the victor go the spoils.

10. Take time for deliberation; hste spoils everything. 

11. Blight: something that spoils the appearance or …

12. I would set desire towards greater spoils.

13. The soldiers began to divide the spoils.

14. Apparently by desiring the spoils gained by evil means.

15. 2 One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel. 

16. A rotten apple spoils the (whole) Bushel 1

17. But the spoils are for you to enjoy.

18. He will share these spoils with “the mighty ones.”

19. The spoils of victory/war included mounds of treasure and armour.

20. Blights: something that spoils the appearance or completeness of …

21. • But Anyhow it was an argument over the spoils

22. Take what spoils from Egypt you will, but go!

23. If something Blights an area, it spoils it and makes

24. Capstans became customizable with the release of the update Shrouded Spoils

25. Capstans became customizable with the release of the update Shrouded Spoils

26. The figure on the left spoils the unity of the painting.

27. A wet blanket Meaning: person who spoils other people’s fun

28. Let's get the spoils back to base and appropriate their finer accoutrements.

29. The Anglo-Saxon fleet emerged victorious and, as Huntingdon accounts, "laden with spoils".

30. Some common synonyms of Booty are loot, plunder, prize, spoils, and spoil

31. Who better to lug our spoils back to the ship when we make landfall?

32. A Blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance

33. If something Blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them

34. Now thou Assemblest from Iberia's mines, And golden-channel'd Tagus, all the spoils

35. Detail on the Arch of Titus in Rome, showing spoils from Jerusalem’s destruction

36. When news of this reached Silvanus, he demanded the spoils be sent to him.

37. As for splitting the spoils and building separate, well, you must be off your noddle.

38. Still commoner and no less repellent is the hardness which spoils so many pretty faces.

39. Promise to take me with you and share in the spoils of you're adventures.

40. Antonyms for Bedecks include blemishes, defaces, disfigures, scars, spoils, mutilates, ruins, defiles, maims and flaws

41. Synonyms for Banjaxes include blights, ruins, destroys, spoils, wrecks, damages, devastates, injures, impairs and shatters

42. His presidency marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the party "spoils system" in American politics.

43. Synonyms for Besmirches include defiles, stains, befouls, soils, contaminates, pollutes, spoils, spots, taints and tarnishes

44. Blemish definition: A Blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance

45. Synonyms for Cossets include babies, coddles, mollycoddles, pampers, indulges, pets, spoils, cockers, overindulges and dandles

46. I am purebred Short - haired Cat note of cats, My master spoils me very much.

47. During wartime a money payment was made from the sultan's coffers to supplement the spoils of war.

48. ‘Though things improve, Serkin, lyrical in the outer movements, spoils the Andante with heavy accents.’.

49. Giant petrels are the vultures of Antarctica and are always the first to the spoils.

50. Supporters of the spoils system claimed it made government more efficient because like-minded individuals Cooperated