spill

Plural: spills

Noun

• liquid that is spilled
  • "clean up the spills"
• a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
• the act of allowing a fluid to escape
• a sudden drop from an upright position
  • "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
• A mess of something that has been dropped.
• A fall or stumble.
• A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
• A slender piece of anything.
• A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
• A slender piece of anything.
• A metallic rod or pin.
• A slender piece of anything.
• A spillikin.
• A slender piece of anything.
• A splinter caught in the skin.
• One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
• The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
• A small sum of money.
• A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

Verb

Verb Forms: spilled, spilt, spilling, spills

• To cause or allow liquid to flow out accidentally.
• cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
  • "spill the milk"
• flow, run or fall out and become lost
  • "The milk spilled across the floor"
  • "The wine spilled onto the table"
• cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
  • "spill the beans all over the table"
• pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
  • "spill blood"
• reveal information
  • "The former employee spilled all the details"
• reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
• To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
• To spread out or fall out, as above.
• To overflow out of a designated area.
• To drop something that was intended to be caught.
• To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
• To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
• To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
• To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
• To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
• To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
• To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
• To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
• To reveal information to an uninformed party.
• To come undone.
• To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.

Examples

• He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist.
• He spilled insults about the other team.
• He tried not to SPILL the beans about his secret word strategy, but he was excited.
• I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
• Praise spilled from him every day.
• Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
• The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
• The crowd spilled onto Maple Avenue.

Synonyms

disgorge, fall, pour forth, release, run out, shed, slop, spillage, spillway, splatter, talk, tumble, wasteweir

Anagrams of spill