spill🔊

To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.

To spread out or fall out, as above.

(of a crowd or people within a crowd) 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.

(figurative) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.

To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.

(obsolete) 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.

(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.

(Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.

To reveal information to an uninformed party.

(of a knot) To come undone.

To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.

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 metallic rod or pin.

A spillikin.

(Herefordshire) A splinter caught in the skin.

(mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

(obsolete) A small sum of money.

(Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of (leadership spill).