Spoil vs Affront - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between spoil and affront

is that spoil is to strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour while affront is to insult intentionally, especially openly.

As nouns the difference between spoil and affront

is that spoil is (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim while affront is an open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

spoil

English

Verb

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

(archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) IX:

All that herde hym wer amased and sayde: ys nott this he that spoylled them whych called on this name in Jerusalem?

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VII:

To do her dye (quoth Vna) were despight, / And shame t'auenge so weake an enimy; / But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.

*, I.2.4.vii:

Roger, that rich Bishop of Salisbury,through grief ran mad, spoke and did he knew not what.

(ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil .

(obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.

* (Bible), (w) iii. 27

No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man.

To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.

* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)

Spiritual pride spoils many graces.

"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. […]"

* 2011 , ‘What the Arab papers say’, The Economist , 5 Aug 2011:

‘This is a great day for us. Let us not spoil it by saying the wrong thing, by promoting a culture of revenge, or by failing to treat the former president with respect.’

To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.

Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.

Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil .

To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

* 2003 , David Nicoll, The Guardian , letter:

Dr Jonathan Grant (Letters, April 22) feels the best way to show his disaffection with political parties over Iraq is to spoil his ballot paper.

To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.

Synonyms

* (ruin) damage, destroy, ruin * (coddle) coddle, indulge, mollycoddle

Noun

(en noun)

(Also in plural: spoils ) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.

(uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging]]. [[tailings, Tailings.

Derived terms

* spoiler

Anagrams

affront

English

(wikipedia affront)

Verb

(en verb)

To insult intentionally, especially openly.

* Addison

How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?

To meet defiantly; to confront.

to affront death

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:

Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .

(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

* Holland

All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.

* Shakespeare

That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(en noun)

An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

Such behavior is an affront to society.

(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

Synonyms

* See also