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to spoils

verb

To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.

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As winners of the civil war, many veterans feel entitled to spoils.

The fact that the group's tax structure has been subject to fierce attack from critics in both Washington and Brussels shows that there are several parties who feel they are entitled to spoils from any revised tax settlement.

The titles — "Pola," "Nova Guinea," "Pulo Penang" — and the colorful painted backgrounds evoke the varied cultures that once thrived on those islands; the sameness of the masks and their empty eyeholes suggest the way the Western gaze reduced such places to spoils of empire.

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So was Beethoven's popular, hard-to-spoil, vigorous Third Piano Concerto.

"I love to spoil them".

Few Chinese wanted to spoil the party.

"I wouldn't want to spoil anything".

You want to spoil it now?

"Ireland did very well to spoil us.

I don't want to spoil it.

(Stemless pears tend to spoil more quickly).

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