Definitions for spilt

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Spelling: [spilt]

IPA: /spɪlt/

Spilt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in spilt (ilpst).

Definitions for spilt

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:

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of spill1 .

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 spilt

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 spilt

Just then Jowler dropped the basket and spilt her huckleberries.

Communities were spilt into smaller and smaller units, while signs in villages warned against speaking Circassian in public areas.

At dinner she shook and jerked and spilt things worse than ever.

There followed a clink of glasses, and some of the wine was spilt.

He gulped down a mouthful, and some of it was spilt on his shirt-front.

It was this monster that had spilt the pool of blood drying on the floor, near the door.

I pray you to pardon this blot; I spilt the ink, kneeling in passion; what would you have?

A minie drew some blood from me—not much, and spilt in a good cause.

The tin can was still round his neck, but the dinner had been spilt in the struggle.

The Frenchman helped; and, being so happy, in cors, spilt the gravy.