Definition of spoils

"spoils" in the noun sense

1. spoil

usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war

"to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"

2. spoil, spoiling, spoilage

the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it

"her spoiling my dress was deliberate"

3. spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation

the act of stripping and taking by force

"spoils" in the verb sense

1. botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

make a mess of, destroy or ruin

"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"

"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

2. spoil, go bad

become unfit for consumption or use

"the meat must be eaten before it spoils"

3. corrupt, spoil

alter from the original

4. pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge

treat with excessive indulgence

"grandparents often pamper the children"

"Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

5. thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk

hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"

"foil your opponent"

6. itch, spoil

have a strong desire or urge to do something

"She is itching to start the project"

"He is spoiling for a fight"

7. rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder

destroy and strip of its possession

"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

8. mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate

make imperfect

"nothing marred her beauty"

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Quotations for spoils

Too much zeal spoils all. [ French Proverb ]

Rich with the spoils of time. [ Sir T. Browne ]

The wit one wants spoils what one has. [ French Proverb ]

Enough is enough, and too much spoils. [ Italian Proverb ]

Too much spoils, too little is nothing. [ Proverb ]

An affected superiority spoils company. [ Proverb ]

I hate war, for it spoils conversation. [ Fontenelle ]

War mends but few, and spoils multitudes. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

A little gall spoils a great deal of honey. [ French Proverb ]

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. [ William Shakespeare ]

One wicked weed spoils a whole mess of porridge. [ Proverb ]

The apothecary's mortar spoils the luter's music. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Precipitation spoils everything; consideration improves everything. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The wit which we strive to possess spoils that which we naturally possess. [ Gresset ]

Travel improves superior wine and spoils the poor; it is the same with the brain.

O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure? [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

'Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence. Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent and divine. [ Robert Hall ]

spoils in Scrabble®

The word spoils is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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spoils in Words With Friends™

The word spoils is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Words within the letters of spoils

2 letter words in spoils (4 words)

3 letter words in spoils (9 words)

4 letter words in spoils (14 words)

5 letter words in spoils (6 words)

6 letter words in spoils (1 word)

spoils + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence spoils

Words with spoils in them (1 word)

Words that end with spoils (2 words)

Word Growth involving spoils

Shorter words in spoils

oil oils

oil spoil

Longer words containing spoils

despoils

spoilsmonger spoilsmongered

spoilsmonger spoilsmongerer spoilsmongerers

spoilsmonger spoilsmongeries

spoilsmonger spoilsmongering

spoilsmonger spoilsmongers

spoilsmonger spoilsmongery

spoilsport spoilsports