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IPA: /spɔɪl/

Spoils is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in spoils (ilopss).

Definitions for spoils

noun

1. Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
2. the act of plundering.
3. an object of plundering.
4. Usually, spoils. the emoluments and advantages of public office viewed as won by a victorious political party: prizes won or treasures accumulated:
5. waste material, as that which is cast up in mining, excavating, quarrying, etc.
6. an imperfectly made object, damaged during the manufacturing process.

Idioms

1. be spoiling for, Informal. to be very eager for; be desirous of:

verb (used with object)

1. to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.:
2. to diminish or impair the quality of; affect detrimentally:
3. to impair, damage, or harm the character or nature of (someone) by unwise treatment, excessive indulgence, etc.:
4. Archaic. to strip (persons, places, etc.) of goods, valuables, etc.; plunder; pillage; despoil.
5. Archaic. to take or seize by force.

verb (used without object)

1. to become bad, or unfit for use, as food or other perishable substances; become tainted or putrid:
2. to plunder, pillage, or rob.

Origin of spoils

1300-50; (v.) Middle English spoilen Old French espoillier Latin spoliāre to despoil, equivalent to spoli(um) booty + -āre infinitive suffix; (noun) derivative of the v. or Old French espoill

Examples for spoils

Perhaps worst of all, this scramble for spoils raises the value of gains even as it lowers the bar for action.

Over time, old rivalries began to deepen, particularly over the spoils of corruption.

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

Yet instead of disbelieving that the facts will set us free, we cling to them as if they were spoils of war.

Kourtney Kardashian (Keeping Up With the Kardashians) Kourtney spoils her son, Mason, and she and her boyfriend love him a lot.

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

Meanwhile, ISIS amassed resources, money, and heavy weapons brought back as spoils from their military victories in Iraq.

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

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

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