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# spoil

«spoil» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **plunder, loot** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

plunder, loot

### part of speech

noun (plural spoils)

### meaning for a pupil

Goods taken from people or towns that were defeated, such as loot after a battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spoil/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today spoil means to ruin something or make it worse. The old sense of loot won in war appears in all three sentences.

### examples

- And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast. (Torah NUM.31.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spoil/#x1)
- The Ass was asked to divide the spoil. (The Aesop for Children / With pictures by Milo Winter) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spoil/#x2)
- But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves. (Torah DEU.3.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spoil/#x3)

### primary record

spoil

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 56 (Torah 11, tales 45, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 2.1 (Torah alone 8.6); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1083/)
- [Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey, and at even he divideth the spoil.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1626/)
- [And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1105/)
- [only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.81/)
- [But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.90/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spoil» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spoil/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.