Definitions from Wiktionary (spill)
▸ verb: (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a crowd or people within a crowd) To overflow out of a designated area.
▸ verb: (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
▸ verb: To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
▸ verb: (intransitive, also figurative) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
▸ verb: To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
▸ verb: (nautical) 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.
▸ verb: (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
▸ verb: (of a knot) To come undone.
▸ verb: (transitive) To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.
▸ noun: (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
▸ noun: A fall or stumble.
▸ noun: A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
▸ noun: A slender piece of anything.
▸ noun: A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
▸ noun: A metallic rod or pin.
▸ noun: A spillikin.
▸ noun: (Shropshire, Herefordshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
▸ noun: (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
▸ noun: (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A small sum of money.
▸ noun: (Australian politics) 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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▸ verb: (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a crowd or people within a crowd) To overflow out of a designated area.
▸ verb: (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
▸ verb: To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
▸ verb: (intransitive, also figurative) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
▸ verb: To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
▸ verb: (nautical) 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.
▸ verb: (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
▸ verb: (of a knot) To come undone.
▸ verb: (transitive) To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.
▸ noun: (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
▸ noun: A fall or stumble.
▸ noun: A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
▸ noun: A slender piece of anything.
▸ noun: A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
▸ noun: A metallic rod or pin.
▸ noun: A spillikin.
▸ noun: (Shropshire, Herefordshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
▸ noun: (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
▸ noun: (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A small sum of money.
▸ noun: (Australian politics) 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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