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

1. noun. A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
2. noun. A slender piece of anything.
3. noun. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
4. noun. A metallic rod or pin.
5. noun. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
6. noun. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
7. noun. A little sum of money.
8. transitive verb. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
9. transitive verb. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
10. transitive verb. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
11. transitive 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.
12. transitive 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.
13. transitive 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.
14. intransitive verb. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
15. intransitive verb. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
16. noun. a sudden drop from an upright position

    "he had a nasty spill on the ice"

    Synonyms: fall, tumble

17. noun. the act of allowing a fluid to escape

    Synonyms: release, spillage

18. noun. a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction

    Synonyms: spillway, wasteweir

19. noun. liquid that is spilled

    "clean up the spills"

20. verb. reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
21. verb. reveal information

    "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"

    "The former employee spilled all the details"

    Synonyms: talk

22. verb. cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over

    "spill the beans all over the table"

    Synonyms: disgorge, shed

23. verb. pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities

    "shed tears"

    "spill blood"

    Synonyms: shed

24. verb. cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

    "spill the milk"

    "splatter water"

    Synonyms: slop, splatter

25. verb. flow, run or fall out and become lost

    "The milk spilled across the floor"

    "The wine spilled onto the table"

Synonyms

fall, tumble, release, spillage, spillway, wasteweir, talk, disgorge, shed, slop, splatter

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spill:

pills

Common word forms

spills, spilled, spiller, spilling, spillable

Words from these letters

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