Meaning

11 senses

  1. Any thing that has been spilled; the resulting mess.

    liquid that is spilled

  2. A fall or stumble.

    The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.

  3. A slender piece of anything.

    A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.

  4. A metallic rod or pin.

  5. A spillikin.

  6. (Shropshire)A splinter caught in the skin.

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

  8. The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

  9. (Australian)A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

    разли́вrazlív

  10. (archaic)Synonym of taper, a thin stick, long wick, etc. used to transfer flame.

  11. (obsolete)A small sum of money.

Examples

465 sentences

  1. I spilled my coffee on the carpet.

    Я пролив каву на килим. — aandrusiak

    ruЯ пролил кофе на ковёр. — Olya

    deIch habe meinen Kaffee auf dem Teppich verschüttet. — Dejo

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  2. It's no use crying over spilt milk.

    Сльозами горю не допоможеш. — deniko

    ruПосле драки кулаками не машут. — marafon

    deWas geschehen ist, ist geschehen. — Manfredo

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  3. I almost spilled coffee on my keyboard.

    Я мало не пролив каву на клавіатуру. — deniko

    ruЯ чуть не пролил кофе на клавиатуру. — marafon

    deFast hätte ich Kaffee auf meiner Tastatur verschüttet. — Oblomov

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  4. There's no use crying over spilt milk.

    Зробленого не повернеш. — deniko

    ruСделанного не воротишь. — sharptoothed

    deWas geschehen ist, ist geschehen. — Manfredo

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  5. I spilled my wine.

    Я пролив своє вино. — deniko

    ruЯ пролил своё вино. — odexed

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
something that has been dropped:

Origin

From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”)

From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).

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Forms

plural: spills
Singularspill
Pluralspills

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
taper
Close in meaning

Word family

25 related words
Derivedantispillforspillnonspilloil spillprespillspillablespillagespillbackspill bloodspillerspill inkspillionairespill juicespill kitspill outspill overspilloverspillproofspill vasespillwayspillyspilthspilt milkunspill

Collocations

6 patterns
  • spilled coffee on
  • spill the beans
  • spilled coffee
  • spilled his drink
  • spilled some
  • not to spill

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
spigotspikespikyspillagespinB2spinachB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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