Dictionary Entry
spill
spill is a 5-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bit of wood split off; a splinter. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 25 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
- 2noun
A slender piece of anything.
- 3noun
A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- 4noun
A metallic rod or pin.
- 5noun
A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
- 6noun
One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- 7noun
A little sum of money.
- 8transitive verb
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- 9transitive verb
To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
- 10transitive verb
To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- 11transitive verb
To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
- 12transitive verb
To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
- 13transitive 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.
- 14intransitive verb
To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
- 15intransitive verb
To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
- 16noun
a sudden drop from an upright position
"he had a nasty spill on the ice"
- 17noun
the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- 18noun
a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
- 19noun
liquid that is spilled
"clean up the spills"
- 20verb
reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
- 21verb
reveal information
"If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"
"The former employee spilled all the details"
Synonyms
- 22verb
cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
"spill the beans all over the table"
- 23verb
pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
"shed tears"
"spill blood"
Synonyms
- 24verb
cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
"spill the milk"
"splatter water"
- 25verb
flow, run or fall out and become lost
"The milk spilled across the floor"
"The wine spilled onto the table"
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