The difference between Slag and Spoil
When used as nouns, slag means waste material from a coal mine, whereas spoil means (also in plural: spoils) plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
When used as verbs, slag means to produce slag, whereas spoil means to strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
check bellow for the other definitions of Slag and Spoil
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Slag as a noun:
Waste material from a coal mine.
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Slag as a noun:
Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
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Slag as a noun:
Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
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Slag as a noun:
Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
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Slag as a noun:
Scoria associated with a volcano.
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Slag as a noun (UK, pejorative, dated):
A coward.
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Slag as a noun (UK, chiefly, Cockney, pejorative):
A contemptible person, a scumbag.
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Slag as a noun (UK, pejorative):
A prostitute.
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Slag as a noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, slang, pejorative):
A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex; a slut.
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Slag as a verb (transitive):
To produce slag.
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Slag as a verb (intransitive):
To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
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Slag as a verb (transitive, sometimes with "off"):
To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
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Slag as a verb (intransitive, Australia, slang):
To spit.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
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Spoil as a verb (ambitransitive, archaic):
To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
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Spoil as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive):
To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive):
To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
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Spoil as a verb (intransitive):
Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
Examples:
"Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil."
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Spoil as a verb (transitive):
To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive):
To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
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Spoil as a noun:
(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
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Spoil as a noun (uncountable):
Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.