Definitions for spills

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Spelling: [spil]

IPA: /spɪl/

Spills is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in spills (illpss).

Definitions for spills

noun

1. a spilling, as of liquid.
2. a quantity spilled.
3. the mark made by something spilled.
4. a spillway.
5. Also called spill light. superfluous or useless light rays, as from theatrical or photographic lighting units.
6. Theater. an area of a stage illuminated by spill light.
7. a throw or fall from a horse, vehicle, or the like:
8. a splinter.
9. a slender piece of wood or of twisted paper, for lighting candles, lamps, etc.
10. a peg made of metal.
11. a small pin for stopping a cask; spile.
12. Mining. forepole.

Idioms

1. spill the beans. bean (def 11).
2. spill / toss one's cookies. cookie (def 7).

verb (used with object)

1. to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully:
2. to shed (blood), as in killing or wounding.
3. to scatter:
4. Nautical. to let the wind out of (a sail). to lose (wind) from a sail.
5. to cause to fall from a horse, vehicle, or the like:
6. Informal. to divulge, disclose, or tell:

verb (used without object)

1. (of a liquid, loose particles, etc.) to run or escape from a container, especially by accident or in careless handling.

Origin of spills

before 950; 1920-25 for def 6; Middle English spillen to kill, destroy, shed (blood), Old English spillan to kill; cognate with Middle High German, Middle Dutch spillen; akin to Examples for spills

Nor is it the way the gunman manages not to spill a drop of the drink in his other hand as he commits all this savagery.

But I think they'll a' gang daft, and spill bluid like wather!'

It simply must be done to preserve the equilibrium and avoid a spill.

Bewildered adolescents, many of them accompanied by equally confused guardians, spill out into the hallway.

“Guess we could spill some of it, sergeant,” he declared meaningly.

Zaun, who was starting to look like the favorite, took the stage to cheers and vowed “I will spill my blood to save the unborn.”

Since the spill, the number of unemployed residents in Louisiana and Alabama has only increased.

A new paper outlines five steps required for a virus to ‘spill over’ from bats to humans.

spill it all out, I say, an' make the world smell as sweet as honey.

One sharp curve in the track and that load will spill all over the place.