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Spill   /spɪl/   Listen
Spill

verb
(past & past part. spilt or spilled; pres. part. spilling)
1.
Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container.  Synonyms: slop, splatter.  "Splatter water"
2.
Flow, run or fall out and become lost.  Synonym: run out.  "The wine spilled onto the table"
3.
Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over.  Synonyms: disgorge, shed.
4.
Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities.  Synonyms: pour forth, shed.  "Spill blood" , "God shed His grace on Thee"
5.
Reveal information.  Synonym: talk.  "The former employee spilled all the details"
6.
Reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail).
noun
1.
Liquid that is spilled.
2.
A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction.  Synonyms: spillway, wasteweir.
3.
The act of allowing a fluid to escape.  Synonyms: release, spillage.
4.
A sudden drop from an upright position.  Synonyms: fall, tumble.



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"Spill" Quotes from Famous Books



... straightening her dress and studied his lined face. "So you really were expecting an attack?" She shook her head in disgust. "I finally meet a man with some semblance of guts, and the only way he can think of to win his point is to let a goon squad spill ...
— The Deadly Daughters • Winston K. Marks
... him, of course, into a confirmed industrialist and trader; but he is more of an adventurer in wealth than a heaper-up of it. He is far from sitting on his money-bags—has absolutely no vein of proper avarice, and for national ends will spill out his money like water, when he is ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... Cards that night except a Subscription Dance, which got under way at 10 P.M. and never subsided until the cold Daylight began to spill in at the Windows. ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade
... usual, Suzanna," said Mrs. Reynolds with a sigh. "Here's your vinegar. Hold it steady. Vinegar's a bad thing to spill." ...
— Suzanna Stirs the Fire • Emily Calvin Blake
... beside him is a franked issue of her old pirate of a father in one respect—nothing frightens her. There she sits; not a screw of her brows or her lips; and the coach rocked, they were sharp on a spill midway of the last descent. It rocks again. She thinks it scarce worth while to look up to reassure him. She is ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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