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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



... coming wind, or rain, or frost, will shrink and strive to hide themselves in their glass arteries; may not that subtle liquor of the blood perceive, by properties within itself, that hands are raised to waste and spill it; and in the veins of men run cold and dull as his did, in ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry
... against Vassalaro," he said, stooping by the other's side to light his cigar with a spill of paper. "My dear Lexman, my fellow countrymen are unpleasant people to deal with in ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace
... get a napkin so he won't spill any of it on his clothes," went on her papa, "and Mrs. Pigg you please be ready with a glass of water, for Uncle Wiggily will want a drink right after ...
— Buddy And Brighteyes Pigg - Bed Time Stories • Howard R. Garis
... angles to a handle) is held in the same way, in the left hand. Also in the first eating lessons, a baby must be allowed to put a spoon in its mouth, pointed end foremost. Its first lessons must be to take small mouthfuls, to eat very slowly, to spill nothing, to keep the mouth shut while chewing and not smear its face over. In drinking, a child should use both hands to hold a mug or glass until its hand is big enough so it can easily hold a glass in one. When it ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post
... memories, however, clung about it for him. Its freight of dreams he had landed here in Shanghai, marketing them for a realization. The sampan now was but the empty shell of a water beetle, that had crawled upon the bank into the sun of Fortune to spill forth a dragon fly to try newly found ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various


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