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spill

The English word “spill” has 27 meanings listed here.

  1. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
  2. To spread out or fall out, as above.
  3. To overflow out of a designated area.
  4. To drop something that was intended to be caught.
  5. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
  6. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
  7. To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
  8. To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
  9. To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
  10. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
  11. 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.
  12. To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
  13. To reveal information to an uninformed party.
  14. To come undone.
  15. To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.
  16. A mess of something that has been dropped.
  17. A fall or stumble.
  18. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
  19. A slender piece of anything.
  20. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
  21. A metallic rod or pin.
  22. A spillikin.
  23. A splinter caught in the skin.
  24. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
  25. The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
  26. A small sum of money.
  27. A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
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