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| spill |
| 1. v. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. |
| I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor. |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above. |
| Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor. |
| 3. v. To drop something that was intended to be caught. |
| 4. v. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste. |
| 5. v. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. |
| 6. v. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed. |
| 7. v. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. |
| 8. v. (nautical) 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. |
| 9. v. (transitive, Australia, politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election. |
| 10. v. To reveal information to an uninformed party. |
| He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist. |
| 11. n. A mess of something that has been dropped. |
| 12. n. A fall or stumble. |
| The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week. |
| 13. n. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire. |
| 14. n. A slender piece of anything. |
| 15. n. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile. |
| 16. n. A metallic rod or pin. |
| 17. n. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground. |
| 18. n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended. |
| 19. n. (obsolete) A small sum of money. |
| 20. n. (Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill |
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