spoils

nounpossessions stolen or gained

Synonyms for spoils

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Antonyms for spoils

loss

Word Origin & History

c.1300, from Old French espoillier "to strip, plunder," from Latin spoliare "to strip of clothing, rob," from spolium "armor stripped from an enemy, booty;" originally "skin stripped from a killed animal," from PIE *spol-yo-, perhaps from root *spel- "to split, to break off" (cf. Greek aspalon "skin, hide," spolas "flayed skin;" Lithuanian spaliai "shives of flax;" Old Church Slavonic rasplatiti "to cleave, split;" Middle Low German spalden, Old High German spaltan "to split;" Sanskrit sphatayati "splits").

Sense of "to damage so as to render useless" is from 1560s; that of "to over-indulge" (a child, etc.) is from 1640s (implied in spoiled). Intransitive sense of "to go bad" is from 1690s. To be spoiling for (a fight, etc.) is from 1865, from notion that one will "spoil" if he doesn't get it. Spoil-sport attested from 1801.

Example Sentences forspoils

"Spoils the hoof to put the knife on the sole, Buck," said the smith.

There they sat down around a council table, and there they divided the spoils.

Leave these to parties contending for office, as the "spoils of victory."

Out of so many conquests and the spoils of conquered cities!

Maria Novella, while it spoils the classical ornaments of the mouldings.

"We hear this is a religion which spoils our Caste," they say, and that is the end of it.

Do all men make them better, and is there only some one that spoils them?

And so they departed on the horses that they kept as the spoils of war.

For the present then they retired as if they meant to do battle for the spoils.

They have already divided the spoils of the Protestants; that is, in theory.

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