Spoils Synonyms and Antonyms

Treat with excessive indulgence
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pampers
  2. mollycoddles
  3. indulges
  4. cossets
  5. coddles
  6. overindulges
  7. babies
  8. caters
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Decay, turn bad
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rots
  2. turns
  3. taints
  4. decomposes
  5. molders
  6. disintegrates
  7. decays
  8. deteriorates
Antonyms:
  1. improves
  2. grows
  3. enhances
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The political appointments or jobs that are at the disposal of those in power.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. porks
Have a strong desire or urge to do something
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. itches
To harm the character of (a child) by overindulgence or leniency.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pampers
To become unfit for use or consumption, as from decay. Used especially of perishables, such as food.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decays

Words Related to Spoils

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Spoils Sentence Examples

  • The auction continued in full swing, the outdoor area crowded with bargain seekers, their acquired spoils piled high about them.

  • The spoils of its tombs excavated in 1896 are in the British Museum.

  • Even so, Prussia was bereft of half of her territories; those west of the river Elbe went to swell the domains of Napoleon's vassals or to form the new kingdom of Westphalia for Jerome Bonaparte; while the spoils which the House of Hohenzollern had won from Poland in the second and third partitions were now to form the duchy of Warsaw, ruled over by Napoleon's ally, the elector (now king) of Saxony.

  • The House of Habsburg now ceded Salzburg and the Inn-Viertel to Napoleon (for his ally, the king of Bavaria); a great portion of the spoils which Austria had torn from Poland in 1795 went to the grand duchy of Warsaw, or Russia; and the cession of her provinces Carinthia, Carniola and Istria to the French empire cut her off from all access to the sea.

  • He would also ferry them back when the auction was finished, hauling home the spoils of the sale.

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