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Definition of Spill
Spill
A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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 small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.

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

A little sum of money.

To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.

To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.

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.

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.

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.

To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.


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Spill Quotations
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
Barack Obama

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
Anton Chekhov

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
Evel Knievel

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
Jimmy Connors

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.
Leighton Meester


Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.
Janet Napolitano

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.
Katie Couric

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
Louis MacNeice

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.
Ken Salazar

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
Bao Dai

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.
David Brock

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Spill Translations
spill in Dutch is morsen
spill in Italian is versamtento
spill in Portuguese is derramamento
spill in Spanish is derramar
spill in Swedish is spilla






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