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Synonyms for spoils

Grammar : Noun
Spell : spoil
Phonetic Transcription : spɔɪl

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Définition of spoils

Origin :
  • 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.
  • noun possessions stolen or gained
Example sentences :
  • "Spoils the hoof to put the knife on the sole, Buck," said the smith.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • There they sat down around a council table, and there they divided the spoils.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Leave these to parties contending for office, as the "spoils of victory."
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Out of so many conquests and the spoils of conquered cities!
  • Extract from : « Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ » by Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes
  • Maria Novella, while it spoils the classical ornaments of the mouldings.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • "We hear this is a religion which spoils our Caste," they say, and that is the end of it.
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • Do all men make them better, and is there only some one that spoils them?
  • Extract from : « Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates » by Plato
  • And so they departed on the horses that they kept as the spoils of war.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • For the present then they retired as if they meant to do battle for the spoils.
  • Extract from : « Anabasis » by Xenophon
  • They have already divided the spoils of the Protestants; that is, in theory.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

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