spilling
Spilling something is to drop it or pour it out. When you spill coffee on your shirt, you're causing stains.
He spilled his coffee all over the table.
The water was spilling out of the faucet, and it was starting to flood the room.
Spilling something is to drop it or pour it out. When you spill coffee on your shirt, you're causing stains.
He spilled his coffee all over the table.
The water was spilling out of the faucet, and it was starting to flood the room.
verb
To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
verb
To spread out or fall out, as above.
verb
To drop something that was intended to be caught.
verb
To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
verb
To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
verb
To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
verb
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
verb
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
(Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
verb
To reveal information to an uninformed party.
verb
(of a knot). To come undone.
noun
The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.
noun
The action of spreading out in the manner of a fluid.
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The water was spilled on the floor.
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It's confirmed the cause of the 'spill' was a blowout.
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An investigation is underway as to the cause of the Australia spill.
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He spilled milk on my mat.
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The Papua macaque problem is comparative to a spill.
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The best of the wine is spilled early in the engagement.
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The clinkers spill out at the end of the cylinder.
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The excess spilled over the dam and into the river.
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Aldra is visibly disturbed by the spilling of the sacred milk.
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Spill the streets of the Shining City with the blood of angels