spoils
Meaning of spoils
verb
- To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
- To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
- To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
- To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
- To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
- To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil.
- To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
- To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
- That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
- Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
To the victor belong the spoils.
Information about spoils
- The singular form of spoils is: spoil.
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Hyphenation of spoils
spoils
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- spoils is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
spoils synonyms
Meaning :
coddle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, damage, destroy, ruin
Translation of spoils
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