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Definition: Spill |
SpillNoun1. Liquid that is spilled; "clean up the spills". 2. A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction. 3. The act of allowing a fluid to escape. 4. A sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice". Verb1. Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water". 2. Flow, run or fall out and become lost, as of a liquid; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table". 3. Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table". 4. Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities; "shed tears"; "spill blood"; "God shed His grace on Thee". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Computing | Spill register spilling. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Building & Civil Engineering | The overtopping of the bank of a river during high floods, or in tidal waterways during the rise of the tide. The flow in a reservoir above the crest of the spillway. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | The flow of water over the crest of a hydraulic structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | A relatively thin film or tongue of metal imperfectly attached to the surface of the steel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Any of the thick laths or poles driven ahead of the main timbering to support the roof or sides in advancing a level in loose ground, or to support the sides of a shaft when sinking through a stratum of looseground. Syn:spile. (references) |
Transportation | To spill wind is to allow a sail to shake thus spilling the wind out of it. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The unintentional release of a solid, liquid, or gas from a transportation mode. (references) | |
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Synonyms: SpillSynonyms: fall (n), release (n), spillage (n), spillway (n), tumble (n), wasteweir (n), disgorge (v), pour forth (v), run out (v), shed (v), slop (v), splatter (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: overfall (geography, physics). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disclosure | Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split. |
Disorder | Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business. |
Ejection | Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind). |
Filament | Strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving. |
Fuel | Brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock. |
Information | Let slip, blurt out, spill the beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest; disclose. |
Prodigality | Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe. |
River | Pour; pour out. (discharge); shower down, irrigate, drench. (wet); spill, splash. |
Stopper | Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet. |
Warfare | Serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign; wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath. |
Waste | Verb: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse. |
Writing | Take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spill |
| English words defined with "spill": babble, babble out, blab, blab out ♦ contained ♦ fall ♦ peach ♦ release ♦ sing, slosh, slosh around, slush, slush around, Spilled, Spilling, Spilt ♦ talk, tattle, tumble, turn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spill": beet flumer ♦ FLUMER II ♦ Gunpowder ♦ HAZARDOUS-WASTE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST, HYDROELECTRIC SPILL GENERATION ♦ Milk ♦ National Response Team, Nurr and Spell ♦ open-top carrier ♦ Perfume, Potentially Responsible Party, pull an Allison ♦ Regional Response Team ♦ Spill Prevention, Containment, and Countermeasures Plan ♦ Tea. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spill": Spilth. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Spill" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (capstan), Norwegian (gamble, game), Swedish (overspill, spill, waste). |
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Screenplays | If I spill, my life ain't worth a nickel (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.) When I spill a drink on the carpet, my butler cleans up after me. (The Tattered Dress; writing credit: George Zuckerman) Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men (Island of Lost Souls; writing credit: H.G. Wells; Waldemar Young) Oh, I'm sorry I can't come to the door right now. I feel that in my weakened condition I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further school absences (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes.) Spill their blood (Patton; writing credit: Ladislas Farago; Omar N. Bradley) | |
Lyrics | Won't spill a drop, no, I promise you (Crush; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) The chills that you spill up my back (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite) And let your hair spill all around me (The End of the Innocence; performing artist: Don Henley) Just chill, listen to the beats I spill (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) If I cry think of what you'll be and how much you will how I feel me to spill (Crowded Elevator(Scream 3 Soundtrack,Make Yourself Import); performing artist: Incubus) | |
Clever | Parental Observation: A child will not spill on a dirty floor. (references; author: unknown) Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Don't Spill the Beans (1965) A Terrible Spill (1898) Farlig spill (2000) | |
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An immature trophozoite may mature into an erythrocytic schizont or gametocytes. When the erythrocytic schizont ruptures, merozoites spill into the blood and repeat the cycle of infecting erythrocytes. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | IXTOC 1 oil well blowout in Bay of Campeche Oil spill studied by RESEARCHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | Boomed marshes containing oil spill. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Oil containment boom placed in Swanson Creek, tributary to the Patuxent River, after oil spill at power generating plant. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | An adult common murre. The common murre sustained the highest level of injuries after the Apex Houston oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Dixon Bay - Attempts to contain the spill included booms placed around the Spartina alterniflora marsh habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Basic facts and figures about the World Prodigy oil spill incident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | A slide depicting the resources injured during the oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | A test planting of smooth cordgrass on the East Timbalier marsh platform. This planting was done as restoration for the Lake Barre oil spill and was not CWPPRA funded. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Fuel spill exercise. |
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| A big bottle or vase dropping and being broken letting its contents spill out randomly. | |
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Health | The thin walls of these ballooning aneurysms can rupture and spill blood into the space surrounding brain cells. (references) | |
Unrecognized hypercalcemia can cause excess calcium to spill into the urine, leading to kidney stones or kidney damage. (references) | ||
Major industrial accidents attributed partly to errors made by fatigued night-shift workers include the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidents. (references) | ||
Business | In 1998, the Peruvian economy faced a sharp recession and increasing unemployment due to spill over from the Asian, Russian and Brazilian shocks and the severe El Nino weather phenomenon of that year. The Peruvian gross domestic product (GDP) declined 0.4 percent and statistics from the Labor Ministry estimated unemployment rate at about 8 percent and underemployment (earning under US$ 160 per month) at over 40 percent. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Taiwan | During the year, the ship's master and the chief engineer of the Greek cargo vessel M/V Amorgos were prevented from leaving the island for 8 months while the Environmental Protection Agency negotiated with the shipping company's agent on compensation for damages caused by an oil spill when the ship ran aground off the coast of southern Taiwan on January 14. They were allowed to depart the island in August. (references) |
Economic History | Ireland | While there is some potential for spill over into the Republic of Ireland, such an occurrence is unlikely. (references) |
Georgia | More recently, there have been concerns that the conflict in neighboring Chechnya could spill over into this country. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ecuador | This year, the U.S. Coast Guard cleaned up an extensive oil spill that damaged and threatened the delicate and unique ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
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Rush Limbaugh | I've told you many times that more oil seeps up from the ocean floor than we could ever spill, and here we hear about it as a natural phenomenon. |
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| "Spill" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 46.55% of the time. "Spill" is used about 406 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 46.55% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Noun (singular) | 34.73% | 141 | 26,682 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.75% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.72% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 0.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 406 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "spill": have a spill ♦ nasty spill ♦ oil spill ♦ spill blood ♦ spill drops ♦ spill ink ♦ spill it! ♦ spill money ♦ spill out ♦ spill out of ♦ spill over ♦ spill over oneself ♦ spill over with ♦ spill shield ♦ spill smth. on oneself ♦ spill the beans ♦ spill the dope ♦ spill wind from a sail. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spill": spill-over, spill-way. | |
Ending with "spill": consecutive-spill, oil-spill. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "spill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, wreck), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, taper, tumble, wane), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), hapërdaj (scatter), derdhje (cast, casting, debouchment, effusion, ejaculation, ejection, escape, inflow, influent, influx, outfall, outpouring, pour), derdhet (Debouch, flood, flow, flow in to, flow into, meet, overflow, pour, rain, regorge, rill, run out, run over, sluice, stream), derdh (discharge, disgorge, dump, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, escape, found, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, reject, run, scatter, shed, slop, strew, tap, tip off, upset). (various references) | |
Arabic | لفافة ورقية (wisp), حرر الشراع من ضغط الريح, سفك (shed, spilling), سقط (bring down, cave, come off, dip, dive, down, drop, drop out, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, sprawl, squirt, topple, trip, tumble), خرج بإعداد كبيرة, إندلق (slop), أفشى السر (be indiscreet, give away, prattle, tell), أراق (effuse, shed). (various references) | |
Basque | isuri (spill to). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разсипвам (intersperse), разкривам (bewray, bring to light, detect, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, elicit, expose, find out, manifest, penetrate, show, smell out, unbare, unclose, unclothe, uncover, uncurtain, undress, unkennel, unload, unlock, unravel, unveil), разливам (diffuse, slop), недозаварка, лисвам, проливам (shed), падане (drop, fall, falling, flow, incidence, mucker, prolapsus, thump, trip, tumble), изсипване (bubonocele, spilth), изсипвам (empty, send forth, shoot, spew, tip out, unload), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop), изтърсване, изтърсвам (shake, shake out, tip, tip out), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, denounce, disclose, divulge, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, loose, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, stick out, throw out, utter), дървена тапа, дървена запушалка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 灑 (sprinkle), 溢出 (Overflow, Overflowed, Overflowing, Overflown, spillage, Spilled, Spilling, spillover, Spilt), 潑掉 , ' (sprinkle). (various references) | |
Czech | vylít (empty, outpour, turn out, unburden), vyklopit (dump, fork out, shell out, shoot), utrousit, toèit (shoot, spin, swing, turn, twiddle, twine, twirl, twist, whirl, wind), tříska (chip, Flinders, shiver, sliver, splinter), rozsypat, rozlít (slop, upset), pád (case, collapse, crash, downfall, drop, fall, plump, plunge, ruin, tumble), motat (twist, wind up), kolíèek (peg, pin). (various references) | |
Danish | splint (alburnum, sapwood, scab, shell, sliver, splinter), spildsituation (overspill, spill situation, spillage), spild (abatement, overspill, shrinkage, spill situation, spillage, wasting), udslip,udledning (overspill, spill situation, spillage), tage vinden fra (blanket), overvalsning (seam, sliver), overspill (overspill, spill situation, spillage), overloeb (overflow, overrun, spillover, weir), fremskudt skjold (bar, forepole, poling board, spile), flig (lap, overlap, sliver). (various references) | |
Dutch | morsen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | disverŝi. (various references) | |
Finnish | ylivirtaus (spillover), päästää purje löysäksi, ohijuoksutus (spillover), metallikuori (scab, shell, sliver), löysätä purje, läikyttää (splash), läikkyä (be spilled, splash), kuori (bark, case, chancel, choir, crust, fruit skin, hull, husk, jacket, peel, shell), kaataa (fell, knock down, overturn, pour, scatter, shed, strike down, upset), hukka (destruction, loss, ruin, waste). (various references) | |
French | se répandre (spread), sortir en masse, faire couler, éclat (sparkle, splendour, splinter), allonge (spile), bois de serrage, cale (sprag), coin de serrage en bois, déborder, déventer, déversement (spill situation, spillage, spillover), écaille, dévoiler, fuite (spill situation, spillage), longue allumette de papier, overspill (spill situation, spillage), paille, répandre (sprinkle), rallonge (spile), remaniement, renversement, déverser. (various references) | |
Frisian | bargje. (various references) | |
German | Verschütten (fill in, slop, spillage, spilled, spilt). (various references) | |
Greek | χύνω (found, pour, shed, spill out). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשפוך (pour, shed), לערות (decant, demolish, denude, empty, expose, lay bare, pour out, raze, strip, uncover), ל"שפך (be emptied, be poured out, slop), לצוק (pour out). (various references) | |
Hungarian | papírtekercs (tárolásra), leesés (downfall, drop, dropping, fall), kilöttyen, kiönt (effuse, Mold, mould, tip off, to effuse, to flood, to pour forth, to shed, to spill, to tip off, to tip out), kiömlés (discharge, effluence, effusion, effusiveness, overflow, spillage, spilling), fémszeg, fémcsap, esés (alignment, crump, descent, downfall, droop, drop, ebb, fall, falling, flop, gradient, setback, tumble), dugó (bung, cork, peg, plug, stopper, stopple, stud, tap), bukás (breakdown, catastrophe, come down, debacle, doom, downfall, failure, fall, fiasco, mucker, overthrow, tumble). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menumpahkan, mencecerkan (scatter about, sow scatter), jatuh (drop off, drop out, fall, keel over). (various references) | |
Italian | spillaggio (casting, overspill, spill situation, spillage, tapping, to cast, to tap), scaglia (chip, scale), sfioro (overflow, spillover, spillway), spargere (disperse, disseminate, scatter, shed, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw about, throw around, waft), squama (scale), stramazzo (overfall, overflow, overflow structure, spillover, spillway, spillway section, weir), sventare (foil, thwart), situazione de fuoriuscita accidentale (overspill, spill situation, spillage), torrente (Creek, torrent), versare (decant, deposit, pay in, pour, pour out, put down, scatter, shed, shower, slop, stream, tip, weep), traboccamento (overlap, overspill, spill situation, spillage), caduta (crash, downfall, drop, fall, falling, plunge, slide, slump, toss, tumble), tracimazione (outflanking, overfall, overflow, overtopping, spillover), versamtento, rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, slop, spill out, tip, topple, tumble, turn, turn inside out, turn over, upset), riversarsi (fall, pour, spill over, surge), paglia (chaff, straw, thatch), overspill (overspill, spill situation, spillage), far cadere (drop, push over, shower, topple). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 転落 (degradation, fall, slump), 顛落 (degradation, fall, slump), 溢流 (overflow), 付け木 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つけぎ, いつりゅう (overflow), て"らく (degradation, fall, slump). (various references) | |
Korean | 출 (Emanating, flux, Outflow, Spilling). (various references) | |
Manx | speiltan, lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, strike, striking, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down), deayrtey (brew, brew of tea, efflux, effusion, pour, pour out, run over, shed, shower, spillage, stream). (various references) | |
Maya | wek (to spill). (various references) | |
Occitan | desquilhar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | situação de derrame (overspill, spill situation, spillage), filar vento, alonga (bar, forepole, poling board, spile), deixar cair (shed), derramamento (outpour, outpouring, overflow), derramamento de líquido, derramar (drop, dump, effuse, flow, outpour, pour, pour in, pour out, put about, scatter, shed, strew), derramar-se (outpour), descarga acidental (accidental spill, incidental discharge, incidental release, overspill, spill situation, spillage), entornar (dump, effuse, flow, overthrow, pour, pour in, pour out, put about, scatter, turn over, upset), entornar-se, escama (scale, squama), aguaceiro (downpour, flurry, rainfall, shower, soaker, squall), extravasar (regurgitate), virar (bend, capsize, overset, slew, slue round, spin, swing, throw, tilt, tip, tip-over, topple, turn, turn around, turn round, upset), líquido derramado (spilth), lascar (break, chip, cleave, scale, slash, spall, splinter, split), pé d'água (rain shower, shower), pedaço de madeira (tree), queda (cloud-burst, come-down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fall, fallback, falling, letdown, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, tumble, tumbling, upset), tombo (mucker, tumbling, upset), transbordamento (overflow, overrun), transbordar (boil over, deluge, flood, gush, overbrim, overflow, overflowing, overrun, swim, waterlog), trasbordar, espalhar (bestrew, blow, buzz, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, drift, drop, flecker, fleece, fling, intersperse, noise, overblow, overspread, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, retail, rumor, rumour, run through, scatter, send, sow, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew). (various references) | |
Romanian | se vãrsa (discharge, disembogue, empty, regorge), se împrãştia (blow away, break, break up, disband, dissipate, lift, scatter, shrink away, thin), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), arunca afarã (spout), cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, collapse, cropper, debacle, destruction, downfall, drop, failure, fall, labefaction, lapse, plump, rot, Turkey), cana (faucet, spigot), cep (bung, journal, nose, spigot, spile, tap), crah financiar, împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish), da jos (get down, knock, overthrow, strip), vãrsare (effusion, flow, influx, issue), pierde (balk, baulk, blunder away, cast away, chuck away, consume, dally away, disappear, drop, lose, lose out, Miss, muddle away, relinquish, ruin, throw away, waste), rãsturna (capsize, coup, invert, lay low, overthrow, overturn, reverse, rummage, scatter, snooker, subvert, throw down, tilt, topple, tumble, turn, upset), rãsturnare (overthrow, tip, upheaval, upset, upsetting), vãrsa (circumfuse, disgorge, effuse, eject, infuse, outpour, pour forth, puke, regorge, shed, spew, spout, tipple, vomit), da drumul la (ease, exhaust, heave, let off, relinquish, slack, slip, stream, volley). (various references) | |
Russian | рассыпать (scatter, strew), разливаться, разливать (slop), лучина, брызги (spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spray), просыпать (leep trough, oversleep, sleep through), пролить (shed), проливать (spilt). (various references) | |
Scottish | dòirt (pour). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sručiti (plunge, pour), zbaciti (buck, cast off, dethrone, throw down, throw off), vreteno (arbor, mandrel, spindle), razliti (diffuse), rasuti se, rasuti (disperse, squander, strew), prosuti (outpour, pour out, slop, spill out), prosipanje (shedding), proliti (shed, slop), pad (collapse, come down, decline, downfall, drop, fall, hang, overturn, tumble), čepić. (various references) | |
Spanish | vertido (leak), derramar (draw, outpour, pour, pour out, scatter, shed, shower, slop, spill out, stream, strew, tumble, tumble over, upset). (various references) | |
Swedish | spilla (drop, slop, trifle away, waste), spill (overspill, waste). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งที่หกล้น, ทำให้หก, การหกคะเมน, ทะลัก, หก. (various references) | |
Turkish | serpmek (asperse, besprinkle, dabble, dust, intersperse, perfuse, pulverization, scatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), saçmak (besprinkle, bestrew, broadcast, disseminate, distribute, eradiate, irradiate, lash out on, radiate, scatter, sow, spit, splutter, sprinkle, strew, throw out), saçılmak (be scattered, be spilled, be sprinkled, fly, scatter, sprinkle), söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), düşme (descent, downfall, drop, fall, falling away, falling down, falling off, flop, precipitation, sag, scale down, slump, tumble), üzerinden atma, açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, divulge, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, let on, reveal, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unseal, unveil, utter, vent, ventilate, yield, yield up), akıtmak (disembogue, drain, drain away, drain off, drip, funnel, pour, shed, stream, trickle, weep), dökülmek (be poured, come off, course, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, teem, trail), dökmek (cast, deplenish, deplete, diffuse, dump, effuse, empty, found, pour, pour from, pour out, pour out of, shed, shower, slop, slosh on, teem, tip, tip over, unbosom), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, tumble), üstünden atmak (put off, throw off, work off), düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), tutuşturma tahtası, tıkaç (bung, Cork, filler, gag, packing, plug, spigot, stopper, stopple, tampon, wad, wadding), tapa (fuse, fuze, spile, stopper, stopple), tutuşturma kâğıdı (touchpaper), düşürme (causing to fall, degradation, dropping, overthrow, reduction, rollback, throw). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dцkmek (leak), зцpleme (brushwood). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стержень (bar, core, stalk, web), розсипатися (molder, moulder), розсипати (intersperse), чіп (microchip, obturator, stopper), кілочок (peg), осколок (chip, odd-come-short, shiver, splinter), лучина, проливатися, проливати (effuse). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự l m tr n (spilt), sự l m đổ ra (spilt), cái chốt nhỏ (spilt). (various references) | |
Welsh | tywallt (pour, shed), colli (be lost, lose, perish, shed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spill": spillable, spillage, spillages, spilled, spiller, spillers, spillikin, spillikins, spilling, spillover, spillovers, spills, spillway, spillways. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "spill": overspill. (additional references) | |
Words containing "spill": overspills. (additional references) | |
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"Spill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aspell, psilo, spail, spal, Spall, spel, spil, spiol, spl, sqill, Supalla, svill. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spill" (pronounced spi"l) |
| 3 | -p i" l | pill. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pills. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ills, lips, lisp, pill, sill, slip. | |
-2 letters: ill, lip, lis, pis, psi, sip. | |
-3 letters: is, li, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: prills, spills. | |
+2 letters: ellipse, fillips, lipless, pillars, pillows, pilules, plimsol, pollist, psyllid, spilled, spiller, uphills. | |
+3 letters: allspice, ellipses, ellipsis, hilltops, landslip, lapillus, lapsible, lupulins, misspell, pailfuls, pailsful, palliest, palliums, pastille, perillas, phallism, phallist, pileless, pillages, pillions, pinballs, pitfalls, playlist, plimsole, plimsoll, plimsols, plushily, pluvials, pollices, pollists, prebills, psyllids, psyllium, sleepily, slipless, slipslop, slipsole, sloppily, spadille, spalling, spelling, spillage, spillers, spilling, spillway, spinally, spinelle, spirally, spirilla, spitball, splenial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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