spoils

Meaning of spoils

verb
  1. To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
  2. To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
  3. To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
  4. To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
  5. To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
  6. To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
  7. Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
    Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil.
  8. To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
  9. To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
noun
  1. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
  2. 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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