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spill English

Meaning spill meaning

What does spill mean?
Definitions in simple English

spill Verb

— An act of accidentally hitting a cup of water and the water makes a mess on something. I accidentally spilled coffee on my shirt.

spill

— verb (= splatter) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container spill the milk splatter water — verb cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over spill the beans all over the table — verb flow, run or fall out and become lost The milk spilled across the floor The wine spilled onto the table — verb (= shed) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities shed tears spill blood God shed His grace on Thee — verb (= talk) reveal information If you don't oblige me, I'll talk! The former employee spilled all the details — noun a sudden drop from an upright position he had a nasty spill on the ice — noun the act of allowing a fluid to escape — verb reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) — noun liquid that is spilled clean up the spills — noun (= spillway) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction

Synonyms spill synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as spill?

spill English » English

pour pour out shed overflow scatter sprinkle splash fall drop spillage upset tumble slop empty turn over ooze let fall flow drip drain water wasteweir waste turn tip out spread splatter spillway spill out run out let out leak escape effuse dump dash well out trickle topple tip over tip throw talk stream spray spill over shedding sew seep release

Topics spill topics

What do people use spill to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Pour
Physical actions Move something Carry

Knock over
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Take something out of something

  • What words refer to turning a container so that its contents come out?
    pour dump spill

Conjugation spill conjugation

How do you conjugate spill?

spill · verb

Examples spill examples

How do I use spill in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I am afraid he is going to spill the beans.
She may spill the beans.
Don't spill the beans.
The oil spill polluted the bay.
Please don't spill the beans to Elizabeth that I bought her a gold necklace for her birthday.
Don't spill the soup.
Tears began to spill down her cheeks.
People often spill their guts to bartenders.
Mary bumped into Tom, causing him to spill his coffee all over his shirt.
You can wear my scarf as long as you don't spill anything on it.
Did Tom spill something again?
Tears began to spill down her face.
Tears began to spill down his cheeks.
Be careful not to spill your beer.

Movie subtitles

Becareful not to spill any.
I won't spill anything, if you're scared of that.
What I need are ears to spill them in.
I'm gonna spill it.
If not, I'll just have to spill the beans to Papa.
He's not the sort of chap to give things away,...lose his head, spill the beans, all that sort of business.
I'm not afraid to spill it.
When he thought they might spill something, he bumped them off.
You have my permission to spill it.
Spill the beans!
Come on, Rocky. Just spill.
And I'll lay you odds that you'll go to the cops and spill everything you know.
But you did take a spill.
But if I'm going to go anyway, I guess I might as well spill it.
I might as well spill it.
Well, I was afraid I might spill it.
If you go downstairs and spill the beans, I'll tell Betty that I caught you smoking a cigarette.
He's not the sort of chap to give things away and lose his head. and spill the beans, and all that sort of business.
Come on, spill it.
Get out, take your chances. because the minute I get back, I'm gonna spill the beans.
Come on, Whitey, spill everything.
I'll spill the beans.
Come on, Diamond Back, spill it.
So I'm out to get the guys who can spill it.
If you just let people talk long enough sooner or later, somebody will spill the beans.
If you have anything more to tell on me spill it right now, or shut your big mouth and get out.
Did you spill anything? - No.
Spill it, what's on your mind?
Don't spill the precious sake.
Now you come clean! Spill the beans!
Just spill. -We've got all the dope anyway.
When you gonna spill it over the air?
Why don't you spill it to the cops?
Okay, sweetheart, spill it.

News and current affairs

Such areas not only permit the regeneration of species, but also provide ecological benefits that spill over to neighboring unprotected areas.
One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels - twice the size of the BP spill.
So tensions spill over into the streets and take the form of riots and protests.
If a major oil spill in Haiti were threatening the Gulf of Mexico, wouldn't we want the best technology (and not just the technology available in Haiti) to try to contain it?
The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game-changer of historic proportions.
A prolonged moratorium on offshore and other out-of-bounds energy exploration makes sense, but the real tragedy of the BP oil spill will be if the changes stop there.
Yet the high costs of tyranny spill over to the rest of the world, in the forms of uncontrolled disease, refugee movements, violence, and criminality.
The natural instinct to celebrate and support democratization across the Mediterranean has been tempered by concerns that the crisis will spill onto European shores.
Perhaps after a couple drinks, Putin might spill the beans on whether, as a real-world KGB agent, he ever directed any remotely similar operation.
Learning may be more marked in some sectors (such as industrial manufacturing) than in others, and the benefits of that learning, including the institutional development required for success, may spill over to other economic activities.
Consider the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
The BP spill was one of the first instances in which companies were forced to contend with the power of social media - and in which people realized the potential of the tools at their disposal.
The Gulf oil spill changed all of that.
The best guideline is to not permit disagreements to spill over and complicate or infect the relationship.
Can Good Emerge From the BP Oil Spill?
CAMBRIDGE - Perhaps it is a pipe dream, but it is just possible that the ongoing BP oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico will finally catalyze support for an American environmental policy with teeth.
Advocating a carbon tax in response to the oil spill does not have to be just a way of exploiting tragedy in the Gulf to help finance outsized government spending.
These threats spill across national boundaries and cross the traditional divides between industries and organizations.
And governments should cooperate globally to regulate those parts of the economy - notably finance and the environment - in which problems in one country can spill over to other parts of the world.
But the election result in Athens could fuel panic in financial markets, causing a crisis that would threaten to spill over into Italy, the eurozone's third-largest economy, and, with some delay, France, the second largest.
The first scenario is when a real war threatens to spill over into a wider conflict, destabilizing the region and Great Power relations.
Frightened governments in the region realized that the type of violence occurring almost daily in Iraq was starting to spill across the country's borders.

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