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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



... advisability of having couches at formal banquets as in the old Roman days. The illustration which she was at the moment affording was scarcely, to Nina's mind, encouraging to her proposition. She smoked rapidly and let the cigarette ashes spill all down the ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post
... hard to tell what was the matter with the Commodore, or to take his troubles seriously. He had slightly scorched hands of course. But then one forgot them in looking at his expressive face made out of flour and soot, and in watching him spill breakfast food and ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
... the day it is, goes on forever, that only one small island is subject to the witchery of mathematics, and the proof in commonplace transactions unmixed with the skies that whatever may be the matter with the sun—the earth do move, is round, do roll over, and does not spill off the sea in doing so. At last came shrill head winds, and as we added fifteen miles an hour to this speed, the harp strings in the rigging were touched with weird music, and we filled our lungs consciously and conscientiously with American air, experiencing one of the ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... support of the tribe is inadequate for the sustenance of the herd, whose increase is a perennial expansive force. Soon the pastures become filled with the feeding flocks, and then herdsmen and herds spill over into other fields. Often a season of unusual drought, reducing the existing herbage which is scarcely adequate at best, gives rise to those irregular, temporary expansions which enlarge the geographical horizon of the horde, ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple
... of all work, caused a good deal of amusement in the family circle by writing her instructions in blue pencil on the front of the ash bin. These were: "Strew two shuffefuls of ashes into the volt, but don't spill two shuffefuls onto the floor. By order of the Gurl who has to sweap up." This order was emphatically approved of by those fastidious ones who didn't ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891 • Various


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